Is 2C-I legal in Brazil?

Legal status

Controlled in Brazil. The entry read is item 11 of lista F2, psychotropic substances within lista F, the list of substances of proscribed use in Brazil, and it reads in full: "2C-I ou 4-iodo-2,5-dimetoxifeniletilamina". The annex prints that entry in capitals and the chemical synonym after the word ou is reproduced here in lower case. Item 64, 25I-NBF, carries the string 2C-I-NBF as a synonym and was read and rejected; the entry relied on is item 11 and nothing else. The instrument is Portaria SVS/MS 344 de 12 de maio de 1998, whose Anexo I is the list that places a substance, and article 1 sole paragraph of Lei 11.343/2006 defines drugs for the purposes of that law as substances capable of causing dependence so specified in law or listed in lists periodically updated by the federal executive, which is the hinge between the two instruments. [Certain], the entry was read this pass in Anexo I as published with Resolucao 1.036 de 9 de julho de 2026, Atualizacao n. 101.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Article 5, XLVII, a of the 1988 Constitution provides that there shall be no penalty of death, save in the case of declared war under article 84, XIX, and article 5, XLVII, b bars any penalty of a perpetual character, so neither a death sentence nor a whole life sentence is available under the drug law. [Certain], the constitutional text was read this pass. Personal use is article 28 of Lei 11.343/2006, the statute the live Brazilian cells name in English as the Drug Law, and it carries no prison. The three penalties are a warning about the effects of drugs, provision of services to the community, and an educational measure of attendance at a programme or course. Paragraph 3 caps the second and third at five months, paragraph 4 at ten months on a repeat, and paragraph 2 leaves the personal use question to the judge on the nature and quantity seized, the place and conditions of the act, the social and personal circumstances, and the conduct and record of the agent. The statute itself fixes no quantity figure. The Supremo Tribunal Federal decided Tema 506, leading case RE 635659, on 26 June 2024, and how far it reaches beyond cannabis is genuinely contested. Read the narrow way, item 1 of the thesis says that no criminal offence is committed by a person who acquires, keeps, has in deposit, transports or carries for personal consumption the substance cannabis sativa, naming that substance and no other, and the andamento of 24 August 2023 records the relator adjusting his vote to restrict the declaration of unconstitutionality to seizures of the narcotic substance dealt with in that appeal, cannabis sativa. Read the wide way, items 2 and 3 are not limited to cannabis on their face: item 2 says the article 28 I and III sanctions are applied by the judge in a procedure of non penal nature with no criminal repercussion for the conduct, and item 3 gives the Juizados Especiais Criminais competence over the conduct of article 28 with any penal effect of the sentence forbidden. Nor is the operative order limited on its face: the plenary declared the unconstitutionality, without reduction of text, of article 28 of Lei 11.343/2006, so as to remove from that provision each and every effect of a penal nature, keeping the measures it provides until specific legislation arrives. Which reading governs a substance other than cannabis was not settled by the documents read this pass, and nothing here decides it. [Guessing] as to the reach. What does not turn on it, and is [Certain] either way, is that article 28 has carried no custodial penalty since 2006. Supply is article 33: reclusao of 5 to 15 years and payment of 500 to 1,500 dias-multa. Article 33 paragraph 4 allows a reduction of one sixth to two thirds for a primary agent of good record who is not dedicated to criminal activity and does not belong to a criminal organisation. Article 34 puts equipment at 3 to 10 years, article 35 association at 3 to 10 years, article 36 financing at 8 to 20 years and article 37 informing at 2 to 6 years. Article 40 increases articles 33 to 37 by one sixth to two thirds on its seven listed grounds, transnationality and proximity to schools, prisons and hospitals among them. Article 40-A, inserted by Lei 15.358 de 2026, applies articles 33 to 37 in double where the agent is a member of an ultraviolent criminal organisation, a paramilitary group or a private militia. Doubling article 36 gives 16 to 40 years, and 40 years is the highest figure the statute produces on its own face. That is my derivation from the two articles as read, tagged [Certain] for each figure and [Guessing] for whether the article 40 increase then stacks on top of the doubled figure, which the text read here does not settle.

If prescribed or medical

Lista F is a proscribed list, so there is no prescription tier for it. Resolucao 81/2008, Capitulo XXXIX, Procedimento 1-A, item 6 forbids importing products subject to the special control of Portaria 344/98 that appear in lista F, as raw material, semi-finished or finished product, save where destined for teaching and research, and item 9 confines any such entry to a named set of ports and airports. For a traveller the rule is Resolucao 81 de 5 de novembro de 2008 as amended by Resolucao 28 de 28 de junho de 2011. Its item 1 dispenses with sanitary authorisation at the point of entry for a finished medicine imported by an individual for his own use, item 1.1 brings goods in accompanied or unaccompanied baggage of a traveller arriving from abroad inside that dispensation, and item 1.2 defines own use as a quantity and frequency compatible with the duration and purpose of treatment and not amounting to trade. Item 1.3 takes medicines based on substances listed in Portaria 344/98 back out of the dispensation and sends them to Resolucao 63 de 9 de setembro de 2008. That resolution rewrote article 34 of Portaria 344/98 to forbid purchase and sale of listed substances and their medicines by reimbursement systems through any means of communication including post and electronic channels, excepting only medicines based on lista C1 substances in presentations not registered or marketed in Brazil, bought abroad by an individual for his own use, on production of a medical prescription and a fiscal document, in a quantity for individual use, with resale forbidden. That resolution was read in full this pass, through a rendering fetcher because a direct request to the publisher is refused with a challenge page and the health ministry library returns a server error, so the reading is [Certain] and the route to it is worth stating. The prescribing chapters of Portaria SVS/MS 344/1998 itself were not read this pass, so no validity period and no quantity per prescription is stated here.

Documentation

The placement was read on 21 September 2026 in the Anexo I published with Resolucao da Diretoria Colegiada 1.036, de 9 de julho de 2026, the annex that heads itself Atualizacao n. 101 and whose footer records publication in the Diario Oficial da Uniao of 13 July 2026. ANVISA's own update register at gov.br/anvisa numbers that resolution row 102 of its history and marks it the version in force, while the annex itself is headed Atualizacao n. 101. Both numbers are recorded here because they disagree and neither was preferred silently. A later update is not ruled out.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with Brazil’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.