Legal status in Albania

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Confirmed legal status

2-FDCK

Legal status: 2-FDCK is a controlled psychotropic substance in Albania. It is printed in List II of the 1971 Convention annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara», as «PF 013», CAS «111982-50-4», name «2-fluorodeschloroketamine», chemical name «2-(2-fluorophenyl)-2-(methylamino)cyclohexan-1-one», on page 38 of the consolidated text, and the scheme places that list in Grupi II. The tables are read as at the consolidation of that law published by the Qendra e Botimeve Zyrtare as «ligj-1995-07-26-7975 -i përditësuar 9», which lists Ligji nr. 17/2026, datë 3.2.2026, as its last amendment, and that does not rule out a later amendment, including a change made by the health ministry under neni 2, pika 7, of Ligji nr. 8750, datë 26.3.2001, which says the tables «modifikohen, integrohen dhe azhurnohen nga ministria përgjegjëse për shëndetësinë».
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 29 of the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, lists the principal punishments for crimes as «burgim të përjetshëm», imprisonment and a fine, and names no death sentence, and the note to article 73 records that the words «a me vdekje» were removed by Ligji nr. 8733, datë 24.1.2001. The drug offences in that Code are written for «substancave narkotike dhe psikotrope». Article 283 punishes selling, offering, giving, distributing, trading, transporting, sending, delivering and keeping them, «përveç rastit të përdorimit vetjak dhe në doza të vogla», with five to ten years. Its second paragraph, as rewritten by Ligji nr. 8/2026, datë 28.1.2026, gives seven to fifteen years when the act is done in complicity or more than once, in large quantities, or with substances that cause serious harm to health, and organising, directing or financing gives ten to twenty years. Article 283/a punishes import, export, transit and trade with seven to fifteen years; its aggravated limb and its organising limb then give ten to twenty and fifteen years and above respectively, the second paragraph as rewritten by Ligji nr. 8/2026 and the third reading «jo më pak se pesëmbëdhjetë vjet». Article 32 allows imprisonment for crimes up to «tridhjetë e pesë vjet», so twenty years is not the ceiling on that limb. Article 284/c punishes unlicensed production and manufacture with five to ten years, seven to fifteen years in the aggravated cases and ten to twenty years for organising. Article 284 punishes unlicensed cultivation of plants that serve to produce narcotic and psychotropic substances with three to seven years and five to ten years in the aggravated cases, and its third paragraph reads «Organizmi, drejtimi apo financimi i kësaj veprimtarie, dënohen me burgim nga shtatë gjer në pesëmbëdhjetë vjet». The Albania entry already published on this site gives ten to twenty years for that cultivation limb, and the text quoted shows that figure is wrong. Article 283/b gives three to seven years to a person who administers such substances by duty and creates facilities for taking them. Those are prison bands and not quantities. The classification scheme annexed to Ligji nr. 7975 prints across all three groups «Ndiqet penalisht mbajtja për konsum vetjak», while article 283 excludes keeping for personal use in small doses, and neither text fixes a gram figure for a small dose, so the two are not reconciled by the statute read. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case; in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g, which is a quantity seen in reported cases and not a threshold the statute sets; and personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL, a money figure on a path the published entry marks reported and not controlling. This row is reached by those articles through the printed entry «PF 013», CAS «111982-50-4», name «2-fluorodeschloroketamine», chemical name «2-(2-fluorophenyl)-2-(methylamino)cyclohexan-1-one» in List II of the 1971 Convention, so the offence attaches through placement and not through analogy.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to the licensing and prescription rules of Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara». The classification scheme annexed to that law puts in Grupi I the substances of «Listës IV të Konventës Unike» of 1961 and of «Listës I të Konventës për Lëndët Psikotrope 1971», in Grupi II those of Lists I and II of 1961 and List II of 1971, and in Grupi III those of List III of 1961 and Lists III and IV of 1971. For Grupi II the scheme sets prescriptions of «jo më shumë se 7 ditë» in nëngrupi A and «jo më shumë se 60 ditë» in nëngrupi B, and neni 13 allows production, manufacture, international trade, wholesale and retail sale and use of Grupi II material only to persons «të pajisur me autorizim për këto veprimtari». No Albanian marketing authorisation for this substance was looked for or found in this pass, so no lawful route to carry it is stated.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «PF 013», CAS «111982-50-4», name «2-fluorodeschloroketamine», chemical name «2-(2-fluorophenyl)-2-(methylamino)cyclohexan-1-one» in List II of the 1971 Convention, Grupi II. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Neni 9 of Ligji nr. 7975 prohibits cultivating «të gjitha llojeve dhe varieteteve të bimëve të gjinisë cannabis» for cannabis, resin and oil, and neni 104/1 routes medical and industrial cannabis to Law 61/2023, Ligji nr. 61/2023, whose neni 29 says the products made in the country «janë të destinuara vetëm për eksport». The Albania entry already published on this site cites the cultivation rule to Law 88/2016, article 9; Ligji nr. 88/2016 amended Ligji nr. 8750, and the cultivation prohibition read in this pass is neni 9 of Ligji nr. 7975.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara», consolidated text «ligj-1995-07-26-7975 -i përditësuar 9» from the Qendra e Botimeve Zyrtare, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/7447b244-12e3-4a7c-9292-5baa9753dbc8/content · Ligji nr. 17/2026, datë 3.2.2026, neni 1 and shtojcat 1 to 3, promulgated by decree nr. 80 of 18.2.2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/b999aa23-d6a1-4b78-9ff2-28f5fcb52bcc/content · Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, consolidated through Constitutional Court decision nr. 20 of 3.4.2024, articles 29, 32, 73, 283, 283/a, 283/b, 284 and 284/c, read at https://spak.gov.al/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ligj-nr.-7895-1995-Kodi-penal-i-perditesuar.pdf · Ligji nr. 8/2026, datë 28.1.2026, nenet 39 to 43 amending articles 283 to 284/ç, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/5985bc0a-edd5-4c41-a3a7-5a075807ce65/content · Ligji nr. 8750, datë 26.3.2001, neni 2, pika 7, read at https://spak.gov.al/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ligj-2001-03-26-8750_Ligji-per-substancat-psikotrope.pdf · Ligji nr. 61/2023, neni 29, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/f6f341ee-a486-4de2-b360-275f84f6db04/content · the row read for this cell is List II of the 1971 Convention, «PF 013», page 38 of the consolidated PDF · the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice and the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from statute text in this pass · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · every instrument was read on 3 October 2026 · Updated October 4, 2026

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2C-B

Legal status: 2C-B is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «2C-B; Brolamfetamine», keyed by CAS 66142-81-2. The search recorded for this row ran «2C-B» and «4-bromo-2,5-dimetoksifenetilamin». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «2C-B; Brolamfetamine», keyed by CAS 66142-81-2, reached by the search on «2C-B» and «4-bromo-2,5-dimetoksifenetilamin» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «2C-B; Brolamfetamine», keyed by CAS 66142-81-2, reached by the search on «2C-B» and «4-bromo-2,5-dimetoksifenetilamin» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «2C-B; Brolamfetamine», keyed by CAS 66142-81-2, reached by the search on «2C-B» and «4-bromo-2,5-dimetoksifenetilamin», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 66142-81-2, reached by the search on 2C-B and 4-bromo-2,5-dimetoksifenetilamin. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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3-MMC

Legal status: 3-MMC is a controlled psychotropic substance in Albania. It is printed in List II of the 1971 Convention annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara», as «PM 032», CAS «1246816-62-5», other name «3-Methyl methcathinone», chemical name «2-(methylamino)-1-(3-methylphenyl)propan-1-one», on page 37 of the consolidated text, and the scheme places that list in Grupi II. The tables are read as at the consolidation of that law published by the Qendra e Botimeve Zyrtare as «ligj-1995-07-26-7975 -i përditësuar 9», which lists Ligji nr. 17/2026, datë 3.2.2026, as its last amendment, and that does not rule out a later amendment, including a change made by the health ministry under neni 2, pika 7, of Ligji nr. 8750, datë 26.3.2001, which says the tables «modifikohen, integrohen dhe azhurnohen nga ministria përgjegjëse për shëndetësinë».
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 29 of the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, lists the principal punishments for crimes as «burgim të përjetshëm», imprisonment and a fine, and names no death sentence, and the note to article 73 records that the words «a me vdekje» were removed by Ligji nr. 8733, datë 24.1.2001. The drug offences in that Code are written for «substancave narkotike dhe psikotrope». Article 283 punishes selling, offering, giving, distributing, trading, transporting, sending, delivering and keeping them, «përveç rastit të përdorimit vetjak dhe në doza të vogla», with five to ten years. Its second paragraph, as rewritten by Ligji nr. 8/2026, datë 28.1.2026, gives seven to fifteen years when the act is done in complicity or more than once, in large quantities, or with substances that cause serious harm to health, and organising, directing or financing gives ten to twenty years. Article 283/a punishes import, export, transit and trade with seven to fifteen years; its aggravated limb and its organising limb then give ten to twenty and fifteen years and above respectively, the second paragraph as rewritten by Ligji nr. 8/2026 and the third reading «jo më pak se pesëmbëdhjetë vjet». Article 32 allows imprisonment for crimes up to «tridhjetë e pesë vjet», so twenty years is not the ceiling on that limb. Article 284/c punishes unlicensed production and manufacture with five to ten years, seven to fifteen years in the aggravated cases and ten to twenty years for organising. Article 284 punishes unlicensed cultivation of plants that serve to produce narcotic and psychotropic substances with three to seven years and five to ten years in the aggravated cases, and its third paragraph reads «Organizmi, drejtimi apo financimi i kësaj veprimtarie, dënohen me burgim nga shtatë gjer në pesëmbëdhjetë vjet». The Albania entry already published on this site gives ten to twenty years for that cultivation limb, and the text quoted shows that figure is wrong. Article 283/b gives three to seven years to a person who administers such substances by duty and creates facilities for taking them. Those are prison bands and not quantities. The classification scheme annexed to Ligji nr. 7975 prints across all three groups «Ndiqet penalisht mbajtja për konsum vetjak», while article 283 excludes keeping for personal use in small doses, and neither text fixes a gram figure for a small dose, so the two are not reconciled by the statute read. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case; in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g, which is a quantity seen in reported cases and not a threshold the statute sets; and personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL, a money figure on a path the published entry marks reported and not controlling. This row is reached by those articles through the printed entry «PM 032», CAS «1246816-62-5», other name «3-Methyl methcathinone», chemical name «2-(methylamino)-1-(3-methylphenyl)propan-1-one» in List II of the 1971 Convention, so the offence attaches through placement and not through analogy.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to the licensing and prescription rules of Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara». The classification scheme annexed to that law puts in Grupi I the substances of «Listës IV të Konventës Unike» of 1961 and of «Listës I të Konventës për Lëndët Psikotrope 1971», in Grupi II those of Lists I and II of 1961 and List II of 1971, and in Grupi III those of List III of 1961 and Lists III and IV of 1971. For Grupi II the scheme sets prescriptions of «jo më shumë se 7 ditë» in nëngrupi A and «jo më shumë se 60 ditë» in nëngrupi B, and neni 13 allows production, manufacture, international trade, wholesale and retail sale and use of Grupi II material only to persons «të pajisur me autorizim për këto veprimtari». No Albanian marketing authorisation for this substance was looked for or found in this pass, so no lawful route to carry it is stated.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «PM 032», CAS «1246816-62-5», other name «3-Methyl methcathinone», chemical name «2-(methylamino)-1-(3-methylphenyl)propan-1-one» in List II of the 1971 Convention, Grupi II. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Neni 9 of Ligji nr. 7975 prohibits cultivating «të gjitha llojeve dhe varieteteve të bimëve të gjinisë cannabis» for cannabis, resin and oil, and neni 104/1 routes medical and industrial cannabis to Law 61/2023, Ligji nr. 61/2023, whose neni 29 says the products made in the country «janë të destinuara vetëm për eksport». The Albania entry already published on this site cites the cultivation rule to Law 88/2016, article 9; Ligji nr. 88/2016 amended Ligji nr. 8750, and the cultivation prohibition read in this pass is neni 9 of Ligji nr. 7975.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara», consolidated text «ligj-1995-07-26-7975 -i përditësuar 9» from the Qendra e Botimeve Zyrtare, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/7447b244-12e3-4a7c-9292-5baa9753dbc8/content · Ligji nr. 17/2026, datë 3.2.2026, neni 1 and shtojcat 1 to 3, promulgated by decree nr. 80 of 18.2.2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/b999aa23-d6a1-4b78-9ff2-28f5fcb52bcc/content · Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, consolidated through Constitutional Court decision nr. 20 of 3.4.2024, articles 29, 32, 73, 283, 283/a, 283/b, 284 and 284/c, read at https://spak.gov.al/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ligj-nr.-7895-1995-Kodi-penal-i-perditesuar.pdf · Ligji nr. 8/2026, datë 28.1.2026, nenet 39 to 43 amending articles 283 to 284/ç, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/5985bc0a-edd5-4c41-a3a7-5a075807ce65/content · Ligji nr. 8750, datë 26.3.2001, neni 2, pika 7, read at https://spak.gov.al/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ligj-2001-03-26-8750_Ligji-per-substancat-psikotrope.pdf · Ligji nr. 61/2023, neni 29, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/f6f341ee-a486-4de2-b360-275f84f6db04/content · the row read for this cell is List II of the 1971 Convention, «PM 032», page 37 of the consolidated PDF · the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice and the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from statute text in this pass · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · every instrument was read on 3 October 2026 · Updated October 4, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Adderall is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Amphetamine», keyed by CAS 300-62-9. The brand is not the printed row: the dossier resolves the mixed salt product through the amphetamine active moiety row, and that row is the one quoted. The search recorded for this row ran «Adderall», «amfetamin» and «deksamfetamin». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Amphetamine», keyed by CAS 300-62-9, reached by the search on «Adderall», «amfetamin» and «deksamfetamin» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Amphetamine», keyed by CAS 300-62-9, reached by the search on «Adderall», «amfetamin» and «deksamfetamin» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Amphetamine», keyed by CAS 300-62-9, reached by the search on «Adderall», «amfetamin» and «deksamfetamin», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 300-62-9, reached by the search on Adderall, amfetamin and deksamfetamin. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Alcohol

Legal status: Alcohol is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «alcohol» against those tables, recording the national language form «pije alkoolike; etanol», and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji nr. 61/2012 për akcizat and Ligji nr. 9863 për ushqimin, and the legal category the dossier records is excise and food regime. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «pije alkoolike; etanol» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji nr. 61/2012 për akcizat and Ligji nr. 9863 për ushqimin, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «pije alkoolike; etanol», with Ligji nr. 61/2012 për akcizat and Ligji nr. 9863 për ushqimin governing instead, in the category the dossier records as excise and food regime.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «pije alkoolike; etanol», with Ligji nr. 61/2012 për akcizat and Ligji nr. 9863 për ushqimin governing instead, in the category the dossier records as excise and food regime, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji nr. 61/2012 për akcizat and Ligji nr. 9863 për ushqimin, recorded in the category excise and food regime, with the negative search run against pije alkoolike, etanol · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Amphetamine is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Amphetamine», keyed by CAS 300-62-9. The search recorded for this row ran «amphetamine». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Amphetamine», keyed by CAS 300-62-9, reached by the search on «amphetamine» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Amphetamine», keyed by CAS 300-62-9, reached by the search on «amphetamine» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Amphetamine», keyed by CAS 300-62-9, reached by the search on «amphetamine», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 300-62-9, reached by the search on amphetamine. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: The benzodiazepines are controlled in Albania member by member, and Albania's own annexed tables print the members, so this is a finding rather than a deferral. The members read are alprazolam, keyed by CAS 28981-97-7; clonazepam, keyed by CAS 1622-61-3; diazepam, keyed by CAS 439-14-5; etizolam, keyed by CAS 40054-69-1; lorazepam, keyed by CAS 846-49-1; and nimetazepam, keyed by CAS 2011-67-8, each of them a printed row in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. No printed heading for the class as a whole was found, so the finding is those rows and not a class label, and the six named here are the benzodiazepines this table carries: whether the annexed tables print further members beyond them was not resolved from the dossier read and is not asserted. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Which figure bites depends on which member is in the material, because the offence attaches through the member's own printed entry: alprazolam, keyed by CAS 28981-97-7; clonazepam, keyed by CAS 1622-61-3; diazepam, keyed by CAS 439-14-5; etizolam, keyed by CAS 40054-69-1; lorazepam, keyed by CAS 846-49-1; and nimetazepam, keyed by CAS 2011-67-8. A benzodiazepine that is not one of those six is not resolved by this row.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is six printed member rows in the annexed tables and no printed heading for the class, so the traveller rule reaches the member proved present rather than the group name.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is six printed member rows in the annexed tables and no printed heading for the class, in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. The members read are alprazolam, keyed by CAS 28981-97-7; clonazepam, keyed by CAS 1622-61-3; diazepam, keyed by CAS 439-14-5; etizolam, keyed by CAS 40054-69-1; lorazepam, keyed by CAS 846-49-1; and nimetazepam, keyed by CAS 2011-67-8. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · this cell rests on six printed member rows in the annexed tables and no printed heading for the class, the members being alprazolam, keyed by CAS 28981-97-7 · clonazepam, keyed by CAS 1622-61-3 · diazepam, keyed by CAS 439-14-5 · etizolam, keyed by CAS 40054-69-1 · lorazepam, keyed by CAS 846-49-1 · and nimetazepam, keyed by CAS 2011-67-8 · the class row's own recorded search, which the dossier returned as not verified, ran benzodiazepini, alprazolam and diazepam, and it is named here because the finding rests on the member rows and not on that search · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Buprenorphine is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Buprenorphine», keyed by CAS 52485-79-7. The search recorded for this row ran «buprenorphine». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Buprenorphine», keyed by CAS 52485-79-7, reached by the search on «buprenorphine» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Buprenorphine», keyed by CAS 52485-79-7, reached by the search on «buprenorphine» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Buprenorphine», keyed by CAS 52485-79-7, reached by the search on «buprenorphine», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 52485-79-7, reached by the search on buprenorphine. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Caffeine

Legal status: Caffeine is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «caffeine» against those tables, recording the national language form «kafeinë», and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji nr. 9863 për ushqimin, and the legal category the dossier records is food and labelling regime. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «kafeinë» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji nr. 9863 për ushqimin, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «kafeinë», with Ligji nr. 9863 për ushqimin governing instead, in the category the dossier records as food and labelling regime.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «kafeinë», with Ligji nr. 9863 për ushqimin governing instead, in the category the dossier records as food and labelling regime, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji nr. 9863 për ushqimin, recorded in the category food and labelling regime, with the negative search run against kafeinë · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Cannabis is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Cannabis (plant)», keyed by CAS 8063-14-7. The list prints that entry in capitals and it is set back into normal case here. The search recorded for this row ran «kanabis». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Cannabis (plant)», keyed by CAS 8063-14-7, reached by the search on «kanabis» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Cannabis (plant)», keyed by CAS 8063-14-7, reached by the search on «kanabis» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. Carried forward from the published Albania entry and not re-derived in this pass: the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only, and cannabis is not available as a domestic prescription medicine for travellers.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Cannabis (plant)», keyed by CAS 8063-14-7, reached by the search on «kanabis», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 8063-14-7, reached by the search on kanabis, konoplja and Cannabis sativa. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the complete search set recorded for this row is kanabis, konoplja and Cannabis sativa, reproduced here in full because it is what the record says was searched. konoplja is South Slavic and not Albanian, so the prose fields name only the term that reached the entry and this field carries the rest · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Cathinone is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Cathinone», keyed by CAS 71031-15-7. The search recorded for this row ran «cathinone». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power. The dossier's khat row records a search that included «katinon» and accepted nothing, which points the other way from this printed entry. The source does not settle whether khat leaf is reached through this constituent.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Cathinone», keyed by CAS 71031-15-7, reached by the search on «cathinone» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Cathinone», keyed by CAS 71031-15-7, reached by the search on «cathinone» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Cathinone», keyed by CAS 71031-15-7, reached by the search on «cathinone», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 71031-15-7, reached by the search on cathinone. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Clonazepam is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Clonazepam», keyed by CAS 1622-61-3. The search recorded for this row ran «clonazepam». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power. The dossier's own benzodiazepines row was returned as not verified on a search that accepted nothing, which points the other way from this printed row; the class is therefore resolved member by member from rows like this one rather than from a class heading, and the source does not settle the class as a class.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Clonazepam», keyed by CAS 1622-61-3, reached by the search on «clonazepam» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Clonazepam», keyed by CAS 1622-61-3, reached by the search on «clonazepam» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Clonazepam», keyed by CAS 1622-61-3, reached by the search on «clonazepam», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 1622-61-3, reached by the search on clonazepam. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Cocaine is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Cocaine», keyed by CAS 50-36-2. The search recorded for this row ran «cocaine». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Cocaine», keyed by CAS 50-36-2, reached by the search on «cocaine» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Cocaine», keyed by CAS 50-36-2, reached by the search on «cocaine» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Cocaine», keyed by CAS 50-36-2, reached by the search on «cocaine», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 50-36-2, reached by the search on cocaine. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Codeine is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Codeine», keyed by CAS 76-57-3. The search recorded for this row ran «codeine». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Codeine», keyed by CAS 76-57-3, reached by the search on «codeine» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Codeine», keyed by CAS 76-57-3, reached by the search on «codeine» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Codeine», keyed by CAS 76-57-3, reached by the search on «codeine», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 76-57-3, reached by the search on codeine. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Crack cocaine is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Cocaine», keyed by CAS 50-36-2. The street form is not a row of its own: the dossier resolves the free base through the cocaine row, and that row is the one quoted. The search recorded for this row ran «crack» and «kokain baza». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Cocaine», keyed by CAS 50-36-2, reached by the search on «crack» and «kokain baza» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Cocaine», keyed by CAS 50-36-2, reached by the search on «crack» and «kokain baza» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Cocaine», keyed by CAS 50-36-2, reached by the search on «crack» and «kokain baza», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 50-36-2, reached by the search on crack and kokain baza. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Delta-8-THC is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «delta-8-THC», keyed by CAS 5957-75-5. The search recorded for this row ran «delta-8-THC» and «tetrahidrokanabinol». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «delta-8-THC», keyed by CAS 5957-75-5, reached by the search on «delta-8-THC» and «tetrahidrokanabinol» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «delta-8-THC», keyed by CAS 5957-75-5, reached by the search on «delta-8-THC» and «tetrahidrokanabinol» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «delta-8-THC», keyed by CAS 5957-75-5, reached by the search on «delta-8-THC» and «tetrahidrokanabinol», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 5957-75-5, reached by the search on delta-8-THC and tetrahidrokanabinol. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Diazepam

Legal status: Diazepam is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Diazepam», keyed by CAS 439-14-5. The search recorded for this row ran «diazepam». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power. The dossier's own benzodiazepines row was returned as not verified on a search that accepted nothing, which points the other way from this printed row; the class is therefore resolved member by member from rows like this one rather than from a class heading, and the source does not settle the class as a class. That not verified search is recorded as running on «benzodiazepini», «alprazolam» and «diazepam», so it names this very substance and still accepted nothing.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Diazepam», keyed by CAS 439-14-5, reached by the search on «diazepam» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Diazepam», keyed by CAS 439-14-5, reached by the search on «diazepam» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Diazepam», keyed by CAS 439-14-5, reached by the search on «diazepam», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 439-14-5, reached by the search on diazepam. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: DMT is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Dimethyltryptamine; DMT», keyed by CAS 61-50-7. The search recorded for this row ran «DMT» and «dimetiltriptamin». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power. The dossier's ayahuasca row records a search that included «DMT» and accepted nothing, which points the other way from this printed entry. The source does not settle whether the brew is reached through this constituent.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Dimethyltryptamine; DMT», keyed by CAS 61-50-7, reached by the search on «DMT» and «dimetiltriptamin» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Dimethyltryptamine; DMT», keyed by CAS 61-50-7, reached by the search on «DMT» and «dimetiltriptamin» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Dimethyltryptamine; DMT», keyed by CAS 61-50-7, reached by the search on «DMT» and «dimetiltriptamin», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 61-50-7, reached by the search on DMT and dimetiltriptamin. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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DOM

Legal status: DOM is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «STP; DOM», keyed by CAS 15588-95-1. The search recorded for this row ran «DOM», «STP» and «dimetoksimetilamfetamin». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «STP; DOM», keyed by CAS 15588-95-1, reached by the search on «DOM», «STP» and «dimetoksimetilamfetamin» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «STP; DOM», keyed by CAS 15588-95-1, reached by the search on «DOM», «STP» and «dimetoksimetilamfetamin» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «STP; DOM», keyed by CAS 15588-95-1, reached by the search on «DOM», «STP» and «dimetoksimetilamfetamin», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 15588-95-1, reached by the search on DOM, STP and dimetoksimetilamfetamin. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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DXM

Legal status: Dextromethorphan is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «DXM» and «dekstrometorfan» against those tables, recording the national language form «dekstrometorfan», and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, and the legal category the dossier records is medicinal active ingredient. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «dekstrometorfan» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «dekstrometorfan», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «dekstrometorfan», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, recorded in the category medicinal active ingredient, with the negative search run against dekstrometorfan · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Ephedrine is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «ephedrine» against those tables, recording the national language form «efedrinë», and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji nr. 8874/2002 për kontrollin e lëndëve që përdoren për prodhimin e paligjshëm të narkotikëve, and the legal category the dossier records is drug-precursor regime. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «efedrinë» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji nr. 8874/2002 për kontrollin e lëndëve që përdoren për prodhimin e paligjshëm të narkotikëve, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «efedrinë», with Ligji nr. 8874/2002 për kontrollin e lëndëve që përdoren për prodhimin e paligjshëm të narkotikëve governing instead, in the category the dossier records as drug-precursor regime.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «efedrinë», with Ligji nr. 8874/2002 për kontrollin e lëndëve që përdoren për prodhimin e paligjshëm të narkotikëve governing instead, in the category the dossier records as drug-precursor regime, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji nr. 8874/2002 për kontrollin e lëndëve që përdoren për prodhimin e paligjshëm të narkotikëve, recorded in the category drug-precursor regime, with the negative search run against efedrinë · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Etizolam

Legal status: Etizolam is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Etizolam», keyed by CAS 40054-69-1. The search recorded for this row ran «etizolam». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power. The dossier's own benzodiazepines row was returned as not verified on a search that accepted nothing, which points the other way from this printed row; the class is therefore resolved member by member from rows like this one rather than from a class heading, and the source does not settle the class as a class.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Etizolam», keyed by CAS 40054-69-1, reached by the search on «etizolam» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Etizolam», keyed by CAS 40054-69-1, reached by the search on «etizolam» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Etizolam», keyed by CAS 40054-69-1, reached by the search on «etizolam», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 40054-69-1, reached by the search on etizolam. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Fentanyl is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Fentanyl», keyed by CAS 437-38-7. The search recorded for this row ran «fentanyl». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Fentanyl», keyed by CAS 437-38-7, reached by the search on «fentanyl» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Fentanyl», keyed by CAS 437-38-7, reached by the search on «fentanyl» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Fentanyl», keyed by CAS 437-38-7, reached by the search on «fentanyl», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 437-38-7, reached by the search on fentanyl. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Gabapentin

Legal status: Gabapentin is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «gabapentin» against those tables, and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, and the legal category the dossier records is medicinal active ingredient. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «gabapentin» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «gabapentin», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «gabapentin», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, recorded in the category medicinal active ingredient, with the negative search run against gabapentin · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: GHB is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «GHB», keyed by CAS 591-81-1. The search recorded for this row ran «GHB». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «GHB», keyed by CAS 591-81-1, reached by the search on «GHB» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «GHB», keyed by CAS 591-81-1, reached by the search on «GHB» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «GHB», keyed by CAS 591-81-1, reached by the search on «GHB», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 591-81-1, reached by the search on GHB and gama-hidroksibutanojska. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the complete search set recorded for this row is GHB and gama-hidroksibutanojska, reproduced here in full because it is what the record says was searched. gama-hidroksibutanojska is South Slavic and not Albanian, so the prose fields name only the term that reached the entry and this field carries the rest · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Heroin is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Heroin; Diamorphine», keyed by CAS 561-27-3. The search recorded for this row ran «heroin». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Heroin; Diamorphine», keyed by CAS 561-27-3, reached by the search on «heroin» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Heroin; Diamorphine», keyed by CAS 561-27-3, reached by the search on «heroin» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Heroin; Diamorphine», keyed by CAS 561-27-3, reached by the search on «heroin», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 561-27-3, reached by the search on heroin. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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HHC

Legal status: HHC is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC)», located at the row added by Ligji nr. 17/2026, shtojca nr. 1. This row is not keyed by a CAS number in the dossier. Its locator is the row added to the national list by Ligji nr. 17/2026, shtojca nr. 1, which is the same instrument that supplies the reading horizon for every other row here. The search recorded for this row ran «HHC» and «heksahidrokanabinol». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC)», located at the row added by Ligji nr. 17/2026, shtojca nr. 1, reached by the search on «HHC» and «heksahidrokanabinol» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC)», located at the row added by Ligji nr. 17/2026, shtojca nr. 1, reached by the search on «HHC» and «heksahidrokanabinol» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC)», located at the row added by Ligji nr. 17/2026, shtojca nr. 1, reached by the search on «HHC» and «heksahidrokanabinol», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is located at the row added by Ligji nr. 17/2026, shtojca nr. 1, reached by the search on HHC and heksahidrokanabinol. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Hydrocodone is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Hydrocodone», keyed by CAS 125-29-1. The search recorded for this row ran «hydrocodone». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Hydrocodone», keyed by CAS 125-29-1, reached by the search on «hydrocodone» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Hydrocodone», keyed by CAS 125-29-1, reached by the search on «hydrocodone» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Hydrocodone», keyed by CAS 125-29-1, reached by the search on «hydrocodone», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 125-29-1, reached by the search on hydrocodone. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Ketamine

Legal status: Ketamine is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «ketamine» against those tables, recording the national language form «ketaminë», and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, and the legal category the dossier records is medicinal active ingredient. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «ketaminë» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «ketaminë», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «ketaminë», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, recorded in the category medicinal active ingredient, with the negative search run against ketaminë · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Lorazepam is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Lorazepam», keyed by CAS 846-49-1. The search recorded for this row ran «lorazepam». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power. The dossier's own benzodiazepines row was returned as not verified on a search that accepted nothing, which points the other way from this printed row; the class is therefore resolved member by member from rows like this one rather than from a class heading, and the source does not settle the class as a class.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Lorazepam», keyed by CAS 846-49-1, reached by the search on «lorazepam» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Lorazepam», keyed by CAS 846-49-1, reached by the search on «lorazepam» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Lorazepam», keyed by CAS 846-49-1, reached by the search on «lorazepam», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 846-49-1, reached by the search on lorazepam. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: LSD is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Lysergide; LSD», keyed by CAS 50-37-3. The search recorded for this row ran «LSD» and «lizergid». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Lysergide; LSD», keyed by CAS 50-37-3, reached by the search on «LSD» and «lizergid» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Lysergide; LSD», keyed by CAS 50-37-3, reached by the search on «LSD» and «lizergid» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Lysergide; LSD», keyed by CAS 50-37-3, reached by the search on «LSD» and «lizergid», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 50-37-3, reached by the search on LSD and lizergid. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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MDA

Legal status: MDA is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Tenamfetamine; MDA», keyed by CAS 4764-17-4. The search recorded for this row ran «MDA» and «metilendioksiamfetamin». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Tenamfetamine; MDA», keyed by CAS 4764-17-4, reached by the search on «MDA» and «metilendioksiamfetamin» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Tenamfetamine; MDA», keyed by CAS 4764-17-4, reached by the search on «MDA» and «metilendioksiamfetamin» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Tenamfetamine; MDA», keyed by CAS 4764-17-4, reached by the search on «MDA» and «metilendioksiamfetamin», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 4764-17-4, reached by the search on MDA and metilendioksiamfetamin. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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MDMA

Legal status: MDMA is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «MDMA; Ecstasy», keyed by CAS 42542-10-9. The search recorded for this row ran «MDMA» and «metilendioksimetamfetamin». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «MDMA; Ecstasy», keyed by CAS 42542-10-9, reached by the search on «MDMA» and «metilendioksimetamfetamin» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «MDMA; Ecstasy», keyed by CAS 42542-10-9, reached by the search on «MDMA» and «metilendioksimetamfetamin» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «MDMA; Ecstasy», keyed by CAS 42542-10-9, reached by the search on «MDMA» and «metilendioksimetamfetamin», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 42542-10-9, reached by the search on MDMA and metilendioksimetamfetamin. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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MDPV

Legal status: MDPV is a controlled psychotropic substance in Albania. It is printed in List II of the 1971 Convention annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara», as «PM 021», CAS «687603-66-3», other names «MDPV, 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone», chemical name «(RS)-1-(Benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)-2-(pyrrolidin-1-yl)pentan-1-one», on page 37 of the consolidated text, and the scheme places that list in Grupi II. The tables are read as at the consolidation of that law published by the Qendra e Botimeve Zyrtare as «ligj-1995-07-26-7975 -i përditësuar 9», which lists Ligji nr. 17/2026, datë 3.2.2026, as its last amendment, and that does not rule out a later amendment, including a change made by the health ministry under neni 2, pika 7, of Ligji nr. 8750, datë 26.3.2001, which says the tables «modifikohen, integrohen dhe azhurnohen nga ministria përgjegjëse për shëndetësinë».
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 29 of the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, lists the principal punishments for crimes as «burgim të përjetshëm», imprisonment and a fine, and names no death sentence, and the note to article 73 records that the words «a me vdekje» were removed by Ligji nr. 8733, datë 24.1.2001. The drug offences in that Code are written for «substancave narkotike dhe psikotrope». Article 283 punishes selling, offering, giving, distributing, trading, transporting, sending, delivering and keeping them, «përveç rastit të përdorimit vetjak dhe në doza të vogla», with five to ten years. Its second paragraph, as rewritten by Ligji nr. 8/2026, datë 28.1.2026, gives seven to fifteen years when the act is done in complicity or more than once, in large quantities, or with substances that cause serious harm to health, and organising, directing or financing gives ten to twenty years. Article 283/a punishes import, export, transit and trade with seven to fifteen years; its aggravated limb and its organising limb then give ten to twenty and fifteen years and above respectively, the second paragraph as rewritten by Ligji nr. 8/2026 and the third reading «jo më pak se pesëmbëdhjetë vjet». Article 32 allows imprisonment for crimes up to «tridhjetë e pesë vjet», so twenty years is not the ceiling on that limb. Article 284/c punishes unlicensed production and manufacture with five to ten years, seven to fifteen years in the aggravated cases and ten to twenty years for organising. Article 284 punishes unlicensed cultivation of plants that serve to produce narcotic and psychotropic substances with three to seven years and five to ten years in the aggravated cases, and its third paragraph reads «Organizmi, drejtimi apo financimi i kësaj veprimtarie, dënohen me burgim nga shtatë gjer në pesëmbëdhjetë vjet». The Albania entry already published on this site gives ten to twenty years for that cultivation limb, and the text quoted shows that figure is wrong. Article 283/b gives three to seven years to a person who administers such substances by duty and creates facilities for taking them. Those are prison bands and not quantities. The classification scheme annexed to Ligji nr. 7975 prints across all three groups «Ndiqet penalisht mbajtja për konsum vetjak», while article 283 excludes keeping for personal use in small doses, and neither text fixes a gram figure for a small dose, so the two are not reconciled by the statute read. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case; in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g, which is a quantity seen in reported cases and not a threshold the statute sets; and personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL, a money figure on a path the published entry marks reported and not controlling. This row is reached by those articles through the printed entry «PM 021», CAS «687603-66-3», other names «MDPV, 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone», chemical name «(RS)-1-(Benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)-2-(pyrrolidin-1-yl)pentan-1-one» in List II of the 1971 Convention, so the offence attaches through placement and not through analogy.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to the licensing and prescription rules of Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara». The classification scheme annexed to that law puts in Grupi I the substances of «Listës IV të Konventës Unike» of 1961 and of «Listës I të Konventës për Lëndët Psikotrope 1971», in Grupi II those of Lists I and II of 1961 and List II of 1971, and in Grupi III those of List III of 1961 and Lists III and IV of 1971. For Grupi II the scheme sets prescriptions of «jo më shumë se 7 ditë» in nëngrupi A and «jo më shumë se 60 ditë» in nëngrupi B, and neni 13 allows production, manufacture, international trade, wholesale and retail sale and use of Grupi II material only to persons «të pajisur me autorizim për këto veprimtari». No Albanian marketing authorisation for this substance was looked for or found in this pass, so no lawful route to carry it is stated.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «PM 021», CAS «687603-66-3», other names «MDPV, 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone», chemical name «(RS)-1-(Benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)-2-(pyrrolidin-1-yl)pentan-1-one» in List II of the 1971 Convention, Grupi II. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Neni 9 of Ligji nr. 7975 prohibits cultivating «të gjitha llojeve dhe varieteteve të bimëve të gjinisë cannabis» for cannabis, resin and oil, and neni 104/1 routes medical and industrial cannabis to Law 61/2023, Ligji nr. 61/2023, whose neni 29 says the products made in the country «janë të destinuara vetëm për eksport». The Albania entry already published on this site cites the cultivation rule to Law 88/2016, article 9; Ligji nr. 88/2016 amended Ligji nr. 8750, and the cultivation prohibition read in this pass is neni 9 of Ligji nr. 7975.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara», consolidated text «ligj-1995-07-26-7975 -i përditësuar 9» from the Qendra e Botimeve Zyrtare, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/7447b244-12e3-4a7c-9292-5baa9753dbc8/content · Ligji nr. 17/2026, datë 3.2.2026, neni 1 and shtojcat 1 to 3, promulgated by decree nr. 80 of 18.2.2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/b999aa23-d6a1-4b78-9ff2-28f5fcb52bcc/content · Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, consolidated through Constitutional Court decision nr. 20 of 3.4.2024, articles 29, 32, 73, 283, 283/a, 283/b, 284 and 284/c, read at https://spak.gov.al/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ligj-nr.-7895-1995-Kodi-penal-i-perditesuar.pdf · Ligji nr. 8/2026, datë 28.1.2026, nenet 39 to 43 amending articles 283 to 284/ç, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/5985bc0a-edd5-4c41-a3a7-5a075807ce65/content · Ligji nr. 8750, datë 26.3.2001, neni 2, pika 7, read at https://spak.gov.al/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ligj-2001-03-26-8750_Ligji-per-substancat-psikotrope.pdf · Ligji nr. 61/2023, neni 29, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/f6f341ee-a486-4de2-b360-275f84f6db04/content · the row read for this cell is List II of the 1971 Convention, «PM 021», page 37 of the consolidated PDF · the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice and the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from statute text in this pass · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · every instrument was read on 3 October 2026 · Updated October 4, 2026

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Memantine

Legal status: Memantine is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «memantine» against those tables, recording the national language form «memantinë», and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, and the legal category the dossier records is medicinal active ingredient. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «memantinë» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «memantinë», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «memantinë», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, recorded in the category medicinal active ingredient, with the negative search run against memantinë · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Mephedrone is a controlled psychotropic substance in Albania. It is printed in List II of the 1971 Convention annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara», as «PM 022», CAS «1189805-46-6», other names «mephedrone, 4-methylmethcathinone», chemical name «(RS)-2-methylamino-1-(4-methylphenyl)propan-1-one», on page 37 of the consolidated text, and the scheme places that list in Grupi II. The tables are read as at the consolidation of that law published by the Qendra e Botimeve Zyrtare as «ligj-1995-07-26-7975 -i përditësuar 9», which lists Ligji nr. 17/2026, datë 3.2.2026, as its last amendment, and that does not rule out a later amendment, including a change made by the health ministry under neni 2, pika 7, of Ligji nr. 8750, datë 26.3.2001, which says the tables «modifikohen, integrohen dhe azhurnohen nga ministria përgjegjëse për shëndetësinë».
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 29 of the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, lists the principal punishments for crimes as «burgim të përjetshëm», imprisonment and a fine, and names no death sentence, and the note to article 73 records that the words «a me vdekje» were removed by Ligji nr. 8733, datë 24.1.2001. The drug offences in that Code are written for «substancave narkotike dhe psikotrope». Article 283 punishes selling, offering, giving, distributing, trading, transporting, sending, delivering and keeping them, «përveç rastit të përdorimit vetjak dhe në doza të vogla», with five to ten years. Its second paragraph, as rewritten by Ligji nr. 8/2026, datë 28.1.2026, gives seven to fifteen years when the act is done in complicity or more than once, in large quantities, or with substances that cause serious harm to health, and organising, directing or financing gives ten to twenty years. Article 283/a punishes import, export, transit and trade with seven to fifteen years; its aggravated limb and its organising limb then give ten to twenty and fifteen years and above respectively, the second paragraph as rewritten by Ligji nr. 8/2026 and the third reading «jo më pak se pesëmbëdhjetë vjet». Article 32 allows imprisonment for crimes up to «tridhjetë e pesë vjet», so twenty years is not the ceiling on that limb. Article 284/c punishes unlicensed production and manufacture with five to ten years, seven to fifteen years in the aggravated cases and ten to twenty years for organising. Article 284 punishes unlicensed cultivation of plants that serve to produce narcotic and psychotropic substances with three to seven years and five to ten years in the aggravated cases, and its third paragraph reads «Organizmi, drejtimi apo financimi i kësaj veprimtarie, dënohen me burgim nga shtatë gjer në pesëmbëdhjetë vjet». The Albania entry already published on this site gives ten to twenty years for that cultivation limb, and the text quoted shows that figure is wrong. Article 283/b gives three to seven years to a person who administers such substances by duty and creates facilities for taking them. Those are prison bands and not quantities. The classification scheme annexed to Ligji nr. 7975 prints across all three groups «Ndiqet penalisht mbajtja për konsum vetjak», while article 283 excludes keeping for personal use in small doses, and neither text fixes a gram figure for a small dose, so the two are not reconciled by the statute read. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case; in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g, which is a quantity seen in reported cases and not a threshold the statute sets; and personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL, a money figure on a path the published entry marks reported and not controlling. This row is reached by those articles through the printed entry «PM 022», CAS «1189805-46-6», other names «mephedrone, 4-methylmethcathinone», chemical name «(RS)-2-methylamino-1-(4-methylphenyl)propan-1-one» in List II of the 1971 Convention, so the offence attaches through placement and not through analogy.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to the licensing and prescription rules of Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara». The classification scheme annexed to that law puts in Grupi I the substances of «Listës IV të Konventës Unike» of 1961 and of «Listës I të Konventës për Lëndët Psikotrope 1971», in Grupi II those of Lists I and II of 1961 and List II of 1971, and in Grupi III those of List III of 1961 and Lists III and IV of 1971. For Grupi II the scheme sets prescriptions of «jo më shumë se 7 ditë» in nëngrupi A and «jo më shumë se 60 ditë» in nëngrupi B, and neni 13 allows production, manufacture, international trade, wholesale and retail sale and use of Grupi II material only to persons «të pajisur me autorizim për këto veprimtari». No Albanian marketing authorisation for this substance was looked for or found in this pass, so no lawful route to carry it is stated.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «PM 022», CAS «1189805-46-6», other names «mephedrone, 4-methylmethcathinone», chemical name «(RS)-2-methylamino-1-(4-methylphenyl)propan-1-one» in List II of the 1971 Convention, Grupi II. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Neni 9 of Ligji nr. 7975 prohibits cultivating «të gjitha llojeve dhe varieteteve të bimëve të gjinisë cannabis» for cannabis, resin and oil, and neni 104/1 routes medical and industrial cannabis to Law 61/2023, Ligji nr. 61/2023, whose neni 29 says the products made in the country «janë të destinuara vetëm për eksport». The Albania entry already published on this site cites the cultivation rule to Law 88/2016, article 9; Ligji nr. 88/2016 amended Ligji nr. 8750, and the cultivation prohibition read in this pass is neni 9 of Ligji nr. 7975.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara», consolidated text «ligj-1995-07-26-7975 -i përditësuar 9» from the Qendra e Botimeve Zyrtare, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/7447b244-12e3-4a7c-9292-5baa9753dbc8/content · Ligji nr. 17/2026, datë 3.2.2026, neni 1 and shtojcat 1 to 3, promulgated by decree nr. 80 of 18.2.2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/b999aa23-d6a1-4b78-9ff2-28f5fcb52bcc/content · Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, consolidated through Constitutional Court decision nr. 20 of 3.4.2024, articles 29, 32, 73, 283, 283/a, 283/b, 284 and 284/c, read at https://spak.gov.al/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ligj-nr.-7895-1995-Kodi-penal-i-perditesuar.pdf · Ligji nr. 8/2026, datë 28.1.2026, nenet 39 to 43 amending articles 283 to 284/ç, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/5985bc0a-edd5-4c41-a3a7-5a075807ce65/content · Ligji nr. 8750, datë 26.3.2001, neni 2, pika 7, read at https://spak.gov.al/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ligj-2001-03-26-8750_Ligji-per-substancat-psikotrope.pdf · Ligji nr. 61/2023, neni 29, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/f6f341ee-a486-4de2-b360-275f84f6db04/content · the row read for this cell is List II of the 1971 Convention, «PM 022», page 37 of the consolidated PDF · the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice and the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from statute text in this pass · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · every instrument was read on 3 October 2026 · Updated October 4, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Mescaline is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Mescaline», keyed by CAS 54-04-6. The search recorded for this row ran «mescaline». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power. The dossier's peyote row records a search that included «meskalin» and accepted nothing, which points the other way from this printed entry. The source does not settle whether the cactus is reached through this constituent.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Mescaline», keyed by CAS 54-04-6, reached by the search on «mescaline» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Mescaline», keyed by CAS 54-04-6, reached by the search on «mescaline» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Mescaline», keyed by CAS 54-04-6, reached by the search on «mescaline», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 54-04-6, reached by the search on mescaline. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Methadone is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Methadone», keyed by CAS 76-99-3. The search recorded for this row ran «methadone». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Methadone», keyed by CAS 76-99-3, reached by the search on «methadone» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Methadone», keyed by CAS 76-99-3, reached by the search on «methadone» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Methadone», keyed by CAS 76-99-3, reached by the search on «methadone», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 76-99-3, reached by the search on methadone. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Methamphetamine is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Methamphetamine», keyed by CAS 537-46-2. The search recorded for this row ran «methamphetamine». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Methamphetamine», keyed by CAS 537-46-2, reached by the search on «methamphetamine» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Methamphetamine», keyed by CAS 537-46-2, reached by the search on «methamphetamine» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Methamphetamine», keyed by CAS 537-46-2, reached by the search on «methamphetamine», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 537-46-2, reached by the search on methamphetamine. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Methaqualone is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Methaqualone», keyed by CAS 72-44-6. The search recorded for this row ran «methaqualone». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Methaqualone», keyed by CAS 72-44-6, reached by the search on «methaqualone» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Methaqualone», keyed by CAS 72-44-6, reached by the search on «methaqualone» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Methaqualone», keyed by CAS 72-44-6, reached by the search on «methaqualone», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 72-44-6, reached by the search on methaqualone. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methylone

Legal status: Methylone is a controlled psychotropic substance in Albania. It is printed in List II of the 1971 Convention annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara», as «PM 023», CAS «186028-79-5», other names «methylone, beta-keto-MDMA», chemical name «(RS)-2-methylamino-1-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)propan-1-one», on page 37 of the consolidated text, and the scheme places that list in Grupi II. The tables are read as at the consolidation of that law published by the Qendra e Botimeve Zyrtare as «ligj-1995-07-26-7975 -i përditësuar 9», which lists Ligji nr. 17/2026, datë 3.2.2026, as its last amendment, and that does not rule out a later amendment, including a change made by the health ministry under neni 2, pika 7, of Ligji nr. 8750, datë 26.3.2001, which says the tables «modifikohen, integrohen dhe azhurnohen nga ministria përgjegjëse për shëndetësinë».
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 29 of the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, lists the principal punishments for crimes as «burgim të përjetshëm», imprisonment and a fine, and names no death sentence, and the note to article 73 records that the words «a me vdekje» were removed by Ligji nr. 8733, datë 24.1.2001. The drug offences in that Code are written for «substancave narkotike dhe psikotrope». Article 283 punishes selling, offering, giving, distributing, trading, transporting, sending, delivering and keeping them, «përveç rastit të përdorimit vetjak dhe në doza të vogla», with five to ten years. Its second paragraph, as rewritten by Ligji nr. 8/2026, datë 28.1.2026, gives seven to fifteen years when the act is done in complicity or more than once, in large quantities, or with substances that cause serious harm to health, and organising, directing or financing gives ten to twenty years. Article 283/a punishes import, export, transit and trade with seven to fifteen years; its aggravated limb and its organising limb then give ten to twenty and fifteen years and above respectively, the second paragraph as rewritten by Ligji nr. 8/2026 and the third reading «jo më pak se pesëmbëdhjetë vjet». Article 32 allows imprisonment for crimes up to «tridhjetë e pesë vjet», so twenty years is not the ceiling on that limb. Article 284/c punishes unlicensed production and manufacture with five to ten years, seven to fifteen years in the aggravated cases and ten to twenty years for organising. Article 284 punishes unlicensed cultivation of plants that serve to produce narcotic and psychotropic substances with three to seven years and five to ten years in the aggravated cases, and its third paragraph reads «Organizmi, drejtimi apo financimi i kësaj veprimtarie, dënohen me burgim nga shtatë gjer në pesëmbëdhjetë vjet». The Albania entry already published on this site gives ten to twenty years for that cultivation limb, and the text quoted shows that figure is wrong. Article 283/b gives three to seven years to a person who administers such substances by duty and creates facilities for taking them. Those are prison bands and not quantities. The classification scheme annexed to Ligji nr. 7975 prints across all three groups «Ndiqet penalisht mbajtja për konsum vetjak», while article 283 excludes keeping for personal use in small doses, and neither text fixes a gram figure for a small dose, so the two are not reconciled by the statute read. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case; in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g, which is a quantity seen in reported cases and not a threshold the statute sets; and personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL, a money figure on a path the published entry marks reported and not controlling. This row is reached by those articles through the printed entry «PM 023», CAS «186028-79-5», other names «methylone, beta-keto-MDMA», chemical name «(RS)-2-methylamino-1-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)propan-1-one» in List II of the 1971 Convention, so the offence attaches through placement and not through analogy.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to the licensing and prescription rules of Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara». The classification scheme annexed to that law puts in Grupi I the substances of «Listës IV të Konventës Unike» of 1961 and of «Listës I të Konventës për Lëndët Psikotrope 1971», in Grupi II those of Lists I and II of 1961 and List II of 1971, and in Grupi III those of List III of 1961 and Lists III and IV of 1971. For Grupi II the scheme sets prescriptions of «jo më shumë se 7 ditë» in nëngrupi A and «jo më shumë se 60 ditë» in nëngrupi B, and neni 13 allows production, manufacture, international trade, wholesale and retail sale and use of Grupi II material only to persons «të pajisur me autorizim për këto veprimtari». No Albanian marketing authorisation for this substance was looked for or found in this pass, so no lawful route to carry it is stated.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «PM 023», CAS «186028-79-5», other names «methylone, beta-keto-MDMA», chemical name «(RS)-2-methylamino-1-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)propan-1-one» in List II of the 1971 Convention, Grupi II. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Neni 9 of Ligji nr. 7975 prohibits cultivating «të gjitha llojeve dhe varieteteve të bimëve të gjinisë cannabis» for cannabis, resin and oil, and neni 104/1 routes medical and industrial cannabis to Law 61/2023, Ligji nr. 61/2023, whose neni 29 says the products made in the country «janë të destinuara vetëm për eksport». The Albania entry already published on this site cites the cultivation rule to Law 88/2016, article 9; Ligji nr. 88/2016 amended Ligji nr. 8750, and the cultivation prohibition read in this pass is neni 9 of Ligji nr. 7975.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara», consolidated text «ligj-1995-07-26-7975 -i përditësuar 9» from the Qendra e Botimeve Zyrtare, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/7447b244-12e3-4a7c-9292-5baa9753dbc8/content · Ligji nr. 17/2026, datë 3.2.2026, neni 1 and shtojcat 1 to 3, promulgated by decree nr. 80 of 18.2.2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/b999aa23-d6a1-4b78-9ff2-28f5fcb52bcc/content · Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, consolidated through Constitutional Court decision nr. 20 of 3.4.2024, articles 29, 32, 73, 283, 283/a, 283/b, 284 and 284/c, read at https://spak.gov.al/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ligj-nr.-7895-1995-Kodi-penal-i-perditesuar.pdf · Ligji nr. 8/2026, datë 28.1.2026, nenet 39 to 43 amending articles 283 to 284/ç, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/5985bc0a-edd5-4c41-a3a7-5a075807ce65/content · Ligji nr. 8750, datë 26.3.2001, neni 2, pika 7, read at https://spak.gov.al/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ligj-2001-03-26-8750_Ligji-per-substancat-psikotrope.pdf · Ligji nr. 61/2023, neni 29, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/f6f341ee-a486-4de2-b360-275f84f6db04/content · the row read for this cell is List II of the 1971 Convention, «PM 023», page 37 of the consolidated PDF · the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice and the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from statute text in this pass · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · every instrument was read on 3 October 2026 · Updated October 4, 2026

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Methylphenidate is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Methylphenidate», keyed by CAS 113-45-1. The search recorded for this row ran «methylphenidate». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Methylphenidate», keyed by CAS 113-45-1, reached by the search on «methylphenidate» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Methylphenidate», keyed by CAS 113-45-1, reached by the search on «methylphenidate» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Methylphenidate», keyed by CAS 113-45-1, reached by the search on «methylphenidate», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 113-45-1, reached by the search on methylphenidate. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Modafinil

Legal status: Modafinil is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «modafinil» against those tables, and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, and the legal category the dossier records is medicinal active ingredient. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «modafinil» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «modafinil», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «modafinil», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, recorded in the category medicinal active ingredient, with the negative search run against modafinil · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Morphine

Legal status: Morphine is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Morphine», keyed by CAS 57-27-2. The search recorded for this row ran «morphine». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Morphine», keyed by CAS 57-27-2, reached by the search on «morphine» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Morphine», keyed by CAS 57-27-2, reached by the search on «morphine» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Morphine», keyed by CAS 57-27-2, reached by the search on «morphine», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 57-27-2, reached by the search on morphine. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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MXE

Legal status: Methoxetamine is a controlled psychotropic substance in Albania. It is printed in List II of the 1971 Convention annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara», as «PM 024», CAS «1239943-76-0», other names «methoxetamine, MXE», chemical name «(RS)-2-(3-methoxyphenyl)-2-(ethylamino)cyclohexanone», on page 37 of the consolidated text, and the scheme places that list in Grupi II. The tables are read as at the consolidation of that law published by the Qendra e Botimeve Zyrtare as «ligj-1995-07-26-7975 -i përditësuar 9», which lists Ligji nr. 17/2026, datë 3.2.2026, as its last amendment, and that does not rule out a later amendment, including a change made by the health ministry under neni 2, pika 7, of Ligji nr. 8750, datë 26.3.2001, which says the tables «modifikohen, integrohen dhe azhurnohen nga ministria përgjegjëse për shëndetësinë».
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 29 of the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, lists the principal punishments for crimes as «burgim të përjetshëm», imprisonment and a fine, and names no death sentence, and the note to article 73 records that the words «a me vdekje» were removed by Ligji nr. 8733, datë 24.1.2001. The drug offences in that Code are written for «substancave narkotike dhe psikotrope». Article 283 punishes selling, offering, giving, distributing, trading, transporting, sending, delivering and keeping them, «përveç rastit të përdorimit vetjak dhe në doza të vogla», with five to ten years. Its second paragraph, as rewritten by Ligji nr. 8/2026, datë 28.1.2026, gives seven to fifteen years when the act is done in complicity or more than once, in large quantities, or with substances that cause serious harm to health, and organising, directing or financing gives ten to twenty years. Article 283/a punishes import, export, transit and trade with seven to fifteen years; its aggravated limb and its organising limb then give ten to twenty and fifteen years and above respectively, the second paragraph as rewritten by Ligji nr. 8/2026 and the third reading «jo më pak se pesëmbëdhjetë vjet». Article 32 allows imprisonment for crimes up to «tridhjetë e pesë vjet», so twenty years is not the ceiling on that limb. Article 284/c punishes unlicensed production and manufacture with five to ten years, seven to fifteen years in the aggravated cases and ten to twenty years for organising. Article 284 punishes unlicensed cultivation of plants that serve to produce narcotic and psychotropic substances with three to seven years and five to ten years in the aggravated cases, and its third paragraph reads «Organizmi, drejtimi apo financimi i kësaj veprimtarie, dënohen me burgim nga shtatë gjer në pesëmbëdhjetë vjet». The Albania entry already published on this site gives ten to twenty years for that cultivation limb, and the text quoted shows that figure is wrong. Article 283/b gives three to seven years to a person who administers such substances by duty and creates facilities for taking them. Those are prison bands and not quantities. The classification scheme annexed to Ligji nr. 7975 prints across all three groups «Ndiqet penalisht mbajtja për konsum vetjak», while article 283 excludes keeping for personal use in small doses, and neither text fixes a gram figure for a small dose, so the two are not reconciled by the statute read. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case; in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g, which is a quantity seen in reported cases and not a threshold the statute sets; and personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL, a money figure on a path the published entry marks reported and not controlling. This row is reached by those articles through the printed entry «PM 024», CAS «1239943-76-0», other names «methoxetamine, MXE», chemical name «(RS)-2-(3-methoxyphenyl)-2-(ethylamino)cyclohexanone» in List II of the 1971 Convention, so the offence attaches through placement and not through analogy.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to the licensing and prescription rules of Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara». The classification scheme annexed to that law puts in Grupi I the substances of «Listës IV të Konventës Unike» of 1961 and of «Listës I të Konventës për Lëndët Psikotrope 1971», in Grupi II those of Lists I and II of 1961 and List II of 1971, and in Grupi III those of List III of 1961 and Lists III and IV of 1971. For Grupi II the scheme sets prescriptions of «jo më shumë se 7 ditë» in nëngrupi A and «jo më shumë se 60 ditë» in nëngrupi B, and neni 13 allows production, manufacture, international trade, wholesale and retail sale and use of Grupi II material only to persons «të pajisur me autorizim për këto veprimtari». No Albanian marketing authorisation for this substance was looked for or found in this pass, so no lawful route to carry it is stated.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «PM 024», CAS «1239943-76-0», other names «methoxetamine, MXE», chemical name «(RS)-2-(3-methoxyphenyl)-2-(ethylamino)cyclohexanone» in List II of the 1971 Convention, Grupi II. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Neni 9 of Ligji nr. 7975 prohibits cultivating «të gjitha llojeve dhe varieteteve të bimëve të gjinisë cannabis» for cannabis, resin and oil, and neni 104/1 routes medical and industrial cannabis to Law 61/2023, Ligji nr. 61/2023, whose neni 29 says the products made in the country «janë të destinuara vetëm për eksport». The Albania entry already published on this site cites the cultivation rule to Law 88/2016, article 9; Ligji nr. 88/2016 amended Ligji nr. 8750, and the cultivation prohibition read in this pass is neni 9 of Ligji nr. 7975.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, «Për lëndët narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara», consolidated text «ligj-1995-07-26-7975 -i përditësuar 9» from the Qendra e Botimeve Zyrtare, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/7447b244-12e3-4a7c-9292-5baa9753dbc8/content · Ligji nr. 17/2026, datë 3.2.2026, neni 1 and shtojcat 1 to 3, promulgated by decree nr. 80 of 18.2.2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/b999aa23-d6a1-4b78-9ff2-28f5fcb52bcc/content · Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, consolidated through Constitutional Court decision nr. 20 of 3.4.2024, articles 29, 32, 73, 283, 283/a, 283/b, 284 and 284/c, read at https://spak.gov.al/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ligj-nr.-7895-1995-Kodi-penal-i-perditesuar.pdf · Ligji nr. 8/2026, datë 28.1.2026, nenet 39 to 43 amending articles 283 to 284/ç, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/5985bc0a-edd5-4c41-a3a7-5a075807ce65/content · Ligji nr. 8750, datë 26.3.2001, neni 2, pika 7, read at https://spak.gov.al/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ligj-2001-03-26-8750_Ligji-per-substancat-psikotrope.pdf · Ligji nr. 61/2023, neni 29, read at https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/f6f341ee-a486-4de2-b360-275f84f6db04/content · the row read for this cell is List II of the 1971 Convention, «PM 024», page 37 of the consolidated PDF · the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice and the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from statute text in this pass · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · every instrument was read on 3 October 2026 · Updated October 4, 2026

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Nicotine

Legal status: Nicotine is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «nicotine» against those tables, recording the national language form «nikotinë», and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji nr. 9636/2006 për mbrojtjen e shëndetit nga produktet e duhanit, and the legal category the dossier records is tobacco and nicotine-product regime. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «nikotinë» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji nr. 9636/2006 për mbrojtjen e shëndetit nga produktet e duhanit, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «nikotinë», with Ligji nr. 9636/2006 për mbrojtjen e shëndetit nga produktet e duhanit governing instead, in the category the dossier records as tobacco and nicotine-product regime.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «nikotinë», with Ligji nr. 9636/2006 për mbrojtjen e shëndetit nga produktet e duhanit governing instead, in the category the dossier records as tobacco and nicotine-product regime, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji nr. 9636/2006 për mbrojtjen e shëndetit nga produktet e duhanit, recorded in the category tobacco and nicotine-product regime, with the negative search run against nikotinë · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Nimetazepam is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Nimetazepam», keyed by CAS 2011-67-8. The search recorded for this row ran «nimetazepam». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power. The dossier's own benzodiazepines row was returned as not verified on a search that accepted nothing, which points the other way from this printed row; the class is therefore resolved member by member from rows like this one rather than from a class heading, and the source does not settle the class as a class.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Nimetazepam», keyed by CAS 2011-67-8, reached by the search on «nimetazepam» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Nimetazepam», keyed by CAS 2011-67-8, reached by the search on «nimetazepam» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Nimetazepam», keyed by CAS 2011-67-8, reached by the search on «nimetazepam», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 2011-67-8, reached by the search on nimetazepam. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Nitrous Oxide

Legal status: Nitrous oxide is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «oksid azoti; E942» against those tables, and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji nr. 9863 për ushqimin and Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat, and the legal category the dossier records is food-additive or medicinal-use regime. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «oksid azoti; E942» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji nr. 9863 për ushqimin and Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «oksid azoti; E942», with Ligji nr. 9863 për ushqimin and Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat governing instead, in the category the dossier records as food-additive or medicinal-use regime.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «oksid azoti; E942», with Ligji nr. 9863 për ushqimin and Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat governing instead, in the category the dossier records as food-additive or medicinal-use regime, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji nr. 9863 për ushqimin and Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat, recorded in the category food-additive or medicinal-use regime, with the negative search run against oksid azoti, E942 · the complete search set recorded for this row is dušikov oksid and N2O, reproduced here in full because it is what the record says was searched. dušikov oksid is South Slavic and not Albanian, so the prose fields name only the term that reached the entry and this field carries the rest · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Opium

Legal status: Opium is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Opium», keyed by CAS 8008-60-4. The search recorded for this row ran «opium». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Opium», keyed by CAS 8008-60-4, reached by the search on «opium» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Opium», keyed by CAS 8008-60-4, reached by the search on «opium» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Opium», keyed by CAS 8008-60-4, reached by the search on «opium», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 8008-60-4, reached by the search on opium. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Oxycodone is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Oxycodone», keyed by CAS 76-42-5. The search recorded for this row ran «oxycodone». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Oxycodone», keyed by CAS 76-42-5, reached by the search on «oxycodone» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Oxycodone», keyed by CAS 76-42-5, reached by the search on «oxycodone» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Oxycodone», keyed by CAS 76-42-5, reached by the search on «oxycodone», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 76-42-5, reached by the search on oxycodone. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: PCP is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Phencyclidine; PCP», keyed by CAS 77-10-1. The search recorded for this row ran «pcp». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Phencyclidine; PCP», keyed by CAS 77-10-1, reached by the search on «pcp» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Phencyclidine; PCP», keyed by CAS 77-10-1, reached by the search on «pcp» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Phencyclidine; PCP», keyed by CAS 77-10-1, reached by the search on «pcp», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 77-10-1, reached by the search on pcp. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Not applicable as a single status. Pink cocaine is a street label and not a molecule, so one status for the whole label would be a claim the tables cannot carry. The record for this row ran the label resolution check «kokainë rozë; tusi; 2C-B» and declined to treat it as one molecule level entry, because it is a variable street mixture, and the cocaine and 2C-B constituent rows were checked separately. Every constituent actually detected is classified on its own entry in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Which of those articles bites here depends on what is in the material: the label resolution check «kokainë rozë; tusi; 2C-B» resolves to whatever constituent is detected, each constituent carries its own placement in the annexed tables, and the label is a variable street mixture, and the cocaine and 2C-B constituent rows were checked separately, so a single figure for it would be a figure for a composition nobody has established.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is a label resolution check on «kokainë rozë; tusi; 2C-B» rather than a row of the annexed tables, so the traveller rule reaches whichever active ingredient is proved rather than the label on the container.
Documentation: The record read for this row is a label resolution check on «kokainë rozë; tusi; 2C-B» rather than a row of the annexed tables, run against the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, and the reason the label was stopped is that it is a variable street mixture, and the cocaine and 2C-B constituent rows were checked separately. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · this cell rests on a label resolution check on kokainë rozë, tusi, 2C-B, and not on a single printed row, the label being a variable street mixture, and the cocaine and 2C-B constituent rows were checked separately · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Poppers

Legal status: Not applicable as a single status. Poppers is a product label and not a molecule, so one status for the whole label would be a claim the tables cannot carry. The record for this row ran the label resolution check «poppers; nitrit amili; nitrite alkili» and declined to treat it as one molecule level entry, because it is a variable alkyl nitrite product category that can denote different alkyl nitrites. Every constituent actually detected is classified on its own entry in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power. The dossier's amyl nitrite row runs the same «amil nitrit» and «alkil nitriti» terms and is returned as not verified rather than stopped as a category, so one set of terms is treated two ways across the two rows and the source does not settle which is right for a single named nitrite.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Which of those articles bites here depends on what is in the material: the label resolution check «poppers; nitrit amili; nitrite alkili» resolves to whatever constituent is detected, each constituent carries its own placement in the annexed tables, and the label is a variable alkyl nitrite product category that can denote different alkyl nitrites, so a single figure for it would be a figure for a composition nobody has established.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is a label resolution check on «poppers; nitrit amili; nitrite alkili» rather than a row of the annexed tables, so the traveller rule reaches whichever active ingredient is proved rather than the label on the container.
Documentation: The record read for this row is a label resolution check on «poppers; nitrit amili; nitrite alkili» rather than a row of the annexed tables, run against the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, and the reason the label was stopped is that it is a variable alkyl nitrite product category that can denote different alkyl nitrites. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · this cell rests on a label resolution check on poppers, nitrit amili, nitrite alkili, and not on a single printed row, the label being a variable alkyl nitrite product category that can denote different alkyl nitrites · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Pregabalin is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «pregabalin» against those tables, and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, and the legal category the dossier records is medicinal active ingredient. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «pregabalin» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «pregabalin», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «pregabalin», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, recorded in the category medicinal active ingredient, with the negative search run against pregabalin · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Psilocybin is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Psilocybine», keyed by CAS 520-52-5. The search recorded for this row ran «psilocybin». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Psilocybine», keyed by CAS 520-52-5, reached by the search on «psilocybin» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Psilocybine», keyed by CAS 520-52-5, reached by the search on «psilocybin» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Psilocybine», keyed by CAS 520-52-5, reached by the search on «psilocybin», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 520-52-5, reached by the search on psilocybin. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Quetiapine

Legal status: Quetiapine is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «quetiapine» against those tables, recording the national language form «quetiapinë», and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, and the legal category the dossier records is medicinal active ingredient. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «quetiapinë» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «quetiapinë», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «quetiapinë», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, recorded in the category medicinal active ingredient, with the negative search run against quetiapinë · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Scopolamine is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «scopolamine» against those tables, recording the national language form «skopolaminë», and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, and the legal category the dossier records is medicinal active ingredient. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «skopolaminë» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «skopolaminë», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «skopolaminë», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, recorded in the category medicinal active ingredient, with the negative search run against skopolaminë · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Not applicable as a class status. Synthetic cannabinoids is a family label and not a molecule, so one status for the whole family would be a claim the tables cannot carry. The record for this row ran the label resolution check «kanabinoide sintetike; JWH-018; AM-2201» and declined to treat it as one molecule level entry, because it is a family label covering many different structures, and the individual cannabinoid rows were checked separately. Every constituent actually detected is classified on its own entry in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Which of those articles bites here depends on what is in the material: the label resolution check «kanabinoide sintetike; JWH-018; AM-2201» resolves to whatever constituent is detected, each constituent carries its own placement in the annexed tables, and the label is a family label covering many different structures, and the individual cannabinoid rows were checked separately, so a single figure for it would be a figure for a composition nobody has established.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is a label resolution check on «kanabinoide sintetike; JWH-018; AM-2201» rather than a row of the annexed tables, so the traveller rule reaches whichever active ingredient is proved rather than the label on the container.
Documentation: The record read for this row is a label resolution check on «kanabinoide sintetike; JWH-018; AM-2201» rather than a row of the annexed tables, run against the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, and the reason the label was stopped is that it is a family label covering many different structures, and the individual cannabinoid rows were checked separately. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · this cell rests on a label resolution check on kanabinoide sintetike, JWH-018, AM-2201, and not on a single printed row, the label being a family label covering many different structures, and the individual cannabinoid rows were checked separately · the complete search set recorded for this row is sintetski kanabinoidi and JWH-018, reproduced here in full because it is what the record says was searched. sintetski kanabinoidi is South Slavic and not Albanian, so the prose fields name only the term that reached the entry and this field carries the rest · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Tobacco

Legal status: Tobacco is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «tobacco» against those tables, recording the national language form «duhan», and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji nr. 9636/2006 për mbrojtjen e shëndetit nga produktet e duhanit and Ligji nr. 61/2012, and the legal category the dossier records is tobacco and excise regime. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «duhan» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji nr. 9636/2006 për mbrojtjen e shëndetit nga produktet e duhanit and Ligji nr. 61/2012, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «duhan», with Ligji nr. 9636/2006 për mbrojtjen e shëndetit nga produktet e duhanit and Ligji nr. 61/2012 governing instead, in the category the dossier records as tobacco and excise regime.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «duhan», with Ligji nr. 9636/2006 për mbrojtjen e shëndetit nga produktet e duhanit and Ligji nr. 61/2012 governing instead, in the category the dossier records as tobacco and excise regime, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji nr. 9636/2006 për mbrojtjen e shëndetit nga produktet e duhanit and Ligji nr. 61/2012, recorded in the category tobacco and excise regime, with the negative search run against duhan · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Tramadol

Legal status: Tramadol is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «tramadol» against those tables, and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, and the legal category the dossier records is medicinal active ingredient. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «tramadol» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «tramadol», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «tramadol», with Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik governing instead, in the category the dossier records as medicinal active ingredient, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji nr. 105/2014 për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik, recorded in the category medicinal active ingredient, with the negative search run against tramadol · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Alprazolam is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Alprazolam», keyed by CAS 28981-97-7. The search recorded for this row ran «alprazolam». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power. The dossier's own benzodiazepines row was returned as not verified on a search that accepted nothing, which points the other way from this printed row; the class is therefore resolved member by member from rows like this one rather than from a class heading, and the source does not settle the class as a class. That not verified search is recorded as running on «benzodiazepini», «alprazolam» and «diazepam», so it names this very substance and still accepted nothing.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Alprazolam», keyed by CAS 28981-97-7, reached by the search on «alprazolam» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Alprazolam», keyed by CAS 28981-97-7, reached by the search on «alprazolam» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Alprazolam», keyed by CAS 28981-97-7, reached by the search on «alprazolam», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 28981-97-7, reached by the search on alprazolam. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Xylazine

Legal status: Xylazine is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara. The search recorded for this row ran «xylazine» against those tables, recording the national language form «ksilazinë», and accepted no printed row. The instrument that governs it instead is Ligji për shërbimin veterinar dhe produktet mjekësore veterinare, and the legal category the dossier records is veterinary medicinal active ingredient. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Those articles are not reached through the annexed tables for this row, because the search recorded against «ksilazinë» accepted no printed entry there. What governs instead is Ligji për shërbimin veterinar dhe produktet mjekësore veterinare, whose duties are its own and are not the Criminal Code's drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «ksilazinë», with Ligji për shërbimin veterinar dhe produktet mjekësore veterinare governing instead, in the category the dossier records as veterinary medicinal active ingredient.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is an absence from the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara on the national language form «ksilazinë», with Ligji për shërbimin veterinar dhe produktet mjekësore veterinare governing instead, in the category the dossier records as veterinary medicinal active ingredient, with the annexed tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the governing instrument read for this cell instead of the narcotics tables is Ligji për shërbimin veterinar dhe produktet mjekësore veterinare, recorded in the category veterinary medicinal active ingredient, with the negative search run against ksilazinë · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Zolpidem is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Zolpidem», keyed by CAS 82626-48-0. The search recorded for this row ran «zolpidem». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Zolpidem», keyed by CAS 82626-48-0, reached by the search on «zolpidem» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
If prescribed / medical: Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Zolpidem», keyed by CAS 82626-48-0, reached by the search on «zolpidem» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
Documentation: The placement read for this row is «Zolpidem», keyed by CAS 82626-48-0, reached by the search on «zolpidem», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.

Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 82626-48-0, reached by the search on zolpidem. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Not individually verified

25 substances are not individually verified for Albania

For these the governing national drug law is cited, but we have not verified that the substance specifically is scheduled under it. Treat them as unanswered, not as legal. Confirm with Albania’s drug authority or your embassy.

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «1P-LSD» and «1-propionil-LSD», written in the dossier as the...
25I-NBOMe	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «25I-NBOMe» and...
2C-E	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «2C-E» and «2,5-dimetoksi-4-etilfenetilamin», written in the...
2C-I	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «2C-I» and «2,5-dimetoksi-4-jodofenetilamin», written in the...
2C-T-7	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «2C-T-7» and «propiltiofenetilamin», written in the dossier as...
4-AcO-DMT	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «4-AcO-DMT» and «O-acetilpsilocin», written in the dossier as...
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «4-HO-MET» and «metocin», written in the dossier as the complete...
5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «5-MeO-DMT» and «5-metoksi-N,N-dimetiltriptamin», written in the...
6-APB	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «6-APB» and «benzofuran», written in the dossier as the complete...
7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «7-hidroksimitraginin» and «7-OH-mitragynine», written in the...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «amanita muscaria», written in the dossier as the complete list...
Amyl Nitrite	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «amil nitrit» and «alkil nitriti», written in the dossier as the...
Ayahuasca	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «ayahuasca», «DMT» and «Banisteriopsis caapi», written in the...
Barbiturates	Not confirmed, and the honest reason is that this table carries no barbiturate to resolve the class from. The search...
Cannabinol	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «kanabinol» and «CBN», written in the dossier as the complete...
CBD	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «CBD» and «kanabidiol», written in the dossier as the complete...
GBL	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «GBL» and «gama-butirolakton», written in the dossier as the...
Khat	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «khat», «Catha edulis» and «katinon», written in the dossier as...
Kratom	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «kratom» and «Mitragyna speciosa», written in the dossier as the...
LSA (Morning Glory)	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «LSA» and «lizergamid», written in the dossier as the complete...
Mitragynine	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «mitragynine», written in the dossier as the complete list...
Peyote	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «peyote», «Lophophora williamsii» and «meskalin», written in the...
Phenibut	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «phenibut», written in the dossier as the complete list negative...
Salvia divinorum	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «salvia divinorum», written in the dossier as the complete list...
THC-P	Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «THCP» and «tetrahidrokanabiforol», written in the dossier as...

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