Is Alcohol legal in Cambodia?
Also known as: booze
- Legal status
- Legal, alcohol (ethanol) is a lightly-regulated, freely-sold beverage, not a controlled drug; no strictly enforced national minimum age.
- Consequences if caught
- No penalty for adult consumption; enforcement of any age limit is minimal.
- If prescribed or medical
- n/a, a beverage, not a medicine.
- Documentation
- Openly available in shops, bars and markets; no traveller permit required.
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- The power that moves this list is article 6 of the Law on Drug Control, which authorises the Ministry of Health to modify the annex tables by Prakas after consultation with the National Authority for Combating Drugs, and this project's Cambodia substance dossier checked on 18 September 2026 records that the later Prakas chain could not be closed. No version of the tables later than the enacted 2012 annex is established, so the finding stated above is anchored to that annex alone, and it does not rule out a later amendment made or commenced since.
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Court records
We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.
Other substances confirmed in Cambodia
Same substance, other countries
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