Is 6-APB legal in United Arab Emirates?

Legal status

6-APB is named in the phenethylamines block of Schedule 5 of Decision No. 158 of 2025, at item 25, subitem 29. The entry is «6-APB؛ 1-(1-بنزوفوران-6-يل)بروبان-2-أمين», which prints the benzofuran ring position alongside the abbreviation, and the dossier renders the chemical name as 1-(1-Benzofuran-6-yl)propan-2-amine. The position number is the whole of the identification problem on this row: benzofuran amphetamines differ from one another only in which ring carbon carries the side chain, so an entry that prints the 6 position is naming one isomer and a substance proved to be a different one is not answered by it. Schedule 5 places the row in the Articles 10, 41 and 57 branch, with a Schedule 10 group 1 quantity band. The placement was read on 20 September 2026.

Consequences if caught

Item 25, subitem 29 of Schedule 5 puts this row in one of the four schedule groups Article 57 names. The dossier records Article 57 as stating mandatory death for its trafficking or promotion trigger and as naming no quantity, so identity rather than weight is what decides exposure. That makes the isomer question in the entry the decisive forensic fact on this row, because the capital route follows from being the printed substance and not from carrying an amount. Schedule 10 assigns a group 1 band, and the dossier records that the bands do not gate the Article 57 route, so the band is not a death threshold. Article 41 carries the personal use route for this branch with its tariff unstated.

If prescribed or medical

The dossier's only country level traveller record sits at the modafinil row, where a 268 entry ministry travellers list was checked and expressly not used as a schedule. Attached to this substance: 6-APB is at Schedule 5, item 25, subitem 29, with no medicinal product or prescribing route recorded against it. No permit procedure is described and none is inferred, so the medical question is deferred.

Documentation

There is no medical route recorded for 6-APB and therefore no documentation to set out. Provenance: the entry «6-APB؛ 1-(1-بنزوفوران-6-يل)بروبان-2-أمين» at item 25, subitem 29 was read on 20 September 2026, and the capital analysis rests on Article 57 rather than on the Schedule 10 group 1 band. Because the entry identifies a single benzofuran isomer, any question about a related compound needs the analysis run again on that compound rather than borrowed from this row.

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