Legal status in Barbados

Per-substance legal status for Barbados, from sourced statutes where available. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.

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1P-LSD

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The parent diethylamide is placed in Part II, and this compound is its N1 propionyl derivative. Part II extends only to stereoisomeric forms under paragraph 2, salts under paragraph 3 and preparations under paragraph 4. It carries no ester, ether or acyl limb, which Part I does carry at its own paragraph 3. So the derivative is not reached by the parent row and it has no row of its own. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. A person holding it almost always believes they hold the placed parent, and section 39(3) is written for exactly that mismatch: it removes lack of knowledge as an acquittal route once the prosecution proves what the substance was, subject to its own proviso. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. It is not a controlled drug on this reading, so the section 12 regulations do not govern it and no import authorisation under section 4 is in point. There is also no medicine here to prescribe: it has no therapeutic use and no marketing authorisation anywhere that was checked for this cell. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading the ergoline rows of Part II and the ergot entries of Part III Table I, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read the ergoline rows of Part II and the ergot entries of Part III Table I, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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2-FDCK

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The arylcyclohexylamine rows in Part II are «phencyclidine», «eticyclidine», «rolicyclidine» and «tenocyclidine», a closed set of four. Neither the parent cyclohexanone of this series nor its fluorinated derivative appears among them, and Part II has no structural class clause that would extend the four. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. The realistic route into the Act here is section 20(3), which reaches a person who supplies a substance held out to be a controlled drug when it is not one. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The section 12 regulations do not reach it, because they operate on controlled drugs. It is a research chemical rather than a licensed medicine, so no prescription could exist for it to be carried under in the first place. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every arylcyclohexylamine row in Part II and the whole of Part I, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every arylcyclohexylamine row in Part II and the whole of Part I, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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25I-NBOMe

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The substituted phenethylamine rows in Part II are enumerated by substitution pattern, «dob» with a 4-bromo group, «doet» with a 4-ethyl group, «dma», «tma», «pma» and the 4-methyl member. Every one is a simple primary amine. An N benzyl methoxy substituted member is a different compound with no row, and paragraph 2 of Part II reaches stereoisomeric forms only, not N substitutions. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Sold on blotter, it is indistinguishable by eye from the placed ergoline entry, so the live exposure is a prosecution that proves the placed compound and an accused who cannot show what was actually on the paper. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. No section 12 route applies, since that section governs controlled drugs only. The compound is frequently sold on blotter as though it were the Part II ergoline entry, and a person carrying it under that belief is exposed to the identity provisions in section 39 rather than to any prescription question. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every phenethylamine row in Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every phenethylamine row in Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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2C-B

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. Part II names the 2,5-dimethoxy phenethylamines one at a time and only where the side chain carries an α methyl group, at «dob», «doet», «dma» and the 4-methyl member. The series without that α methyl has no row of any kind, so the brominated member of it is outside the Part although its α methylated relative is inside. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. A pressed tablet of it is routinely sold under the name of a placed methylenedioxy compound, so the conduct most likely to be charged is the section 20(3) holding out offence rather than anything resting on this substance's own character. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The section 12 regulations do not reach it on this reading. It has no medical use and no prescription form, so the only paperwork that could ever matter is analytical rather than clinical. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every 2,5-dimethoxy row in Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every 2,5-dimethoxy row in Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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2C-E

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The 4-ethyl substitution pattern does appear in Part II, but on the α methylated row «doet» against «(±)-4-ethyl-2,5-dimethoxy-α-phenethylamine». The member lacking that α methyl is a different compound and has no row, and no limb of Part II bridges the difference. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing in the Fourth Schedule attaches, and the only route that could is conduct: offering to traffic in «a substance he believes to be a controlled drug» is itself an offence under section 18(2)(b), which does not require the belief to be correct. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. No prescription route exists or could exist: the compound is not a medicine anywhere that was checked, and the section 12 regulations operate on controlled drugs, which on this reading it is not. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading the 4-ethyl row and every neighbouring dimethoxy row in Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read the 4-ethyl row and every neighbouring dimethoxy row in Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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2C-I

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. Part II schedules a 4-bromo member and a 4-ethyl member of the α methylated dimethoxy series and no iodinated member of any series at all. Every chemical name in the Part was searched for an iodo substituent and there is none, against three bromo substituents, six fluoro and thirty seven chloro, so the halogen this compound carries is the one halogen the Part never uses. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Section 18(2)(b) is the trap here, because it reaches an offer to traffic in a substance the person believes to be a controlled drug, so a seller who is wrong about their own product is not thereby safe. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Section 12 does not reach it, and there is no clinical context in which it would be dispensed. The practical point for a traveller is that section 3(2) allows the Minister to place it by order, so the answer is dated rather than permanent. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every chemical name in Part II for a halogen other than bromine, chlorine and fluorine, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every chemical name in Part II for a halogen other than bromine, chlorine and fluorine, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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2C-T-7

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. Every dimethoxy phenethylamine row in Part II carries a carbon or halogen substituent at the 4 position. No row in Part II carries a sulphur bearing side chain at that position, so a 4 thioether member is outside the Part on the face of the chemical name column. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Section 18(2)(c) reaches an act preparatory to trafficking in a substance the person believes to be a controlled drug, so preparation to sell can be an offence although the substance is outside the Schedule. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The section 12 regulations do not apply to it. It is a research compound with no therapeutic indication, so the prescription question is empty and the identification question is the only live one. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every chemical name in Part II for a thioether substituent, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every chemical name in Part II for a thioether substituent, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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3-MMC

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The ketone of this series is placed in Part II at «cathinone» against «(-)-(S)-2-aminopropiophenone», and the reduced alcohol is placed at «cathine». A ring methylated N methylated member is neither of those and it is not a stereoisomer of either, so paragraph 2 of Part II does not reach it and it has no row. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Because it substitutes for a placed ketone of the same series, the most likely prosecution is one that proves the placed compound, and the accused then faces section 39(3) rather than an argument about the Schedule. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. No section 12 route applies. The compound is sold as a substitute for a scheduled ketone of the same series, and a person who believes they hold the scheduled one is in a worse position under section 39(3) than a person who holds it knowingly, which is the opposite of the intuitive result. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading both scheduled members of that ketone series in Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read both scheduled members of that ketone series in Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. This is where the difference between the two Parts bites hardest. Part II places the 4 phosphate ester and the 4 hydroxy compound as separate rows, and its extension limbs stop at stereoisomers, salts and preparations. Part I carries an express «Any ester or ether» limb at its paragraph 3 and Part II carries nothing equivalent, so a 4 acetate ester of a Part II compound is not reached by the Part that contains its parent. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. It converts in the body to a compound that is placed, but the Act schedules substances and not metabolic outcomes, so that conversion does not bring it within Part II. What it does do is make the material in hand hard to distinguish from the placed compound after the event. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Section 12 does not reach it, and no prescription exists for it. It is worth being explicit that a compound only one acetyl group away from a placed Part II entry is nonetheless outside the Part, because a traveller carrying it is not carrying a prescribable medicine either. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading both scheduled tryptamine rows and all four extension paragraphs of Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read both scheduled tryptamine rows and all four extension paragraphs of Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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4-HO-MET

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The 4 hydroxy tryptamine that Part II does place carries two N methyl groups and appears against the chemical name «3-(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indol-4-ol». An N methyl N ethyl member is a different compound. Part II places the N,N diethyl homologue separately at «det», which shows the Part enumerates N substitution patterns rather than covering them by a clause. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. The compound it most resembles is placed, and a laboratory report that names the wrong one of the two decides the case, so the practical exposure turns on analysis rather than on any argument about the Schedule. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The section 12 regulations do not govern it and it has no prescription form. Its close relatives in Part II have no therapeutic use either, so nothing in this series is a medicine a traveller could document. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every indole row in Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every indole row in Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. Part II places the unsubstituted N,N dimethyl tryptamine and the N,N diethyl homologue on separate rows and places two 4 substituted tryptamines on two more. No 5 substituted tryptamine appears in the Part at all, so a 5 methoxy member is outside it. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. It is commonly held in dried material, and that material is not a scheduled item either, so neither the substance route nor a plant material route reaches it on this reading. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. No section 12 route applies. The compound is often encountered in dried animal or plant material, neither of which is a scheduled item, so there is no controlled drug paperwork associated with it at any stage. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every indole row in Part II for a ring substituent position, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every indole row in Part II for a ring substituent position, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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6-APB

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The benzofuran ring system appears in no chemical name anywhere in Part I, Part II or Part III. The nearest scheduled relatives are the methylenedioxy phenethylamines, and the primary amine of that series has no row either, so there is nothing in the Schedule for this compound to be an isomer or a salt of. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing in the Fourth Schedule attaches, and the realistic route is the section 20(3) holding out offence, since the compound is sold as a substitute for placed entries. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Section 12 does not reach it and no prescription for it exists. The benzofuran series has never carried a marketing authorisation that was checked for this cell, so the prescription branch is empty rather than merely unverified. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every chemical name in Parts I to III for a benzofuran ring, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every chemical name in Parts I to III for a benzofuran ring, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. Neither this alkaloid, nor the parent alkaloid it derives from, nor the tree that produces them appears anywhere in the First Schedule. The contrast with the opiates is instructive: Part I names more than a hundred individual opioid compounds and reaches further through its ester, ether, salt and preparation limbs, and none of that machinery touches this series. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing attaches under this Act. It is worth saying that the leaf it comes from is not a scheduled item either, so there is no route at all here, unlike the coca and poppy entries where the plant material is itself named. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The section 12 regulations do not govern it. It is a minor alkaloid of a leaf sold as a botanical product rather than a dispensed medicine, so the documentation a traveller would naturally carry is a supplement label, which proves composition to nobody. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every row of Part I and Part II, and both Tables of Part III, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every row of Part I and Part II, and both Tables of Part III, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control», through its constituents, amfetamine and dexamfetamine. That placement is made under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition. A brand is not a schedule entry, so the question resolves to the constituents. Part II carries a row whose International Non-Proprietary Name column reads «amfetamine» against the trivial name «amphetamine», and immediately below it a row reading «dexamfetamine» against «dexamphetamine». Both constituents of the mixed salts product are therefore separately placed. Part II paragraph 3 reaches «Any salt of a substance for the time being specified in paragraphs 1 or 2 of this Part», which is the limb that matters for a product sold as a mixture of four salts rather than as a base. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Neither constituent row has a figure in column 2 of the Second Schedule, and a mixed salts product weighs a good deal more than the base it delivers, so weight would have been a poor proxy here in any event. What decides the tier is the Fourth Schedule row, not the tablet count. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The constituents are Part II psychotropic substances, so a lawful holding depends on the section 12 regulations and a Barbados registration, and a foreign prescription for the brand does not carry across.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The two constituent rows and the paragraph 3 salt limb were read in Part II. The brand name itself appears nowhere in the First Schedule. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the two adjacent stimulant rows that place the brand's constituents, the second of them carrying the trivial name «dexamphetamine», together with the paragraph 3 salt limb, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Alcohol

Legal status: Not a controlled drug under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act in Barbados, and other Barbados law on alcoholic beverages was not read. Under that Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, nothing in the First Schedule reaches it. Part I lists narcotic drugs, Part II psychotropic substances and Part III precursor and bulk chemicals, and no entry in any of the three names an ethanolic beverage or ethanol itself. The only occurrence of the word in the whole Schedule is inside the chemical name of a Part II phenethylamine row, «(+)-(R)-α-[(R)-1-aminoethyl]benzyl alcohol», which is a different substance entirely. Licensing, excise and sale of alcoholic beverages in Barbados sit outside this Act, and nothing is asserted about them because no such instrument was read. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. No offence under this Act attaches to it, because every offence in Parts II to IV is framed against «a controlled drug» and section 3 makes that a schedule question. The section 8 misuse offence, the section 9 equipment offence and the section 18 trafficking offence all fail at the same first step. The gap is worth sizing. A controlled drug consumed in the same social setting would expose a person to a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily on the section 6(2) row, and this substance exposes them to nothing at all under this Act however much of it is involved. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. It is not a controlled drug, so neither the section 12 regulations nor the section 4 import authorisation regime touches it. A medicinal preparation that uses it as a solvent is governed by the strength and identity of what it carries rather than by the solvent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. Parts I, II and III were read end to end for an entry, Part V's definitions were read for a limb that might have reached it indirectly, and the single occurrence of the word in the Schedule was checked and belongs to a different substance. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule read end to end, the only occurrence of the word anywhere in them being inside the chemical name «(+)-(R)-α-[(R)-1-aminoethyl]benzyl alcohol», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Amanita muscaria

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The fungus is not named and neither of its two active isoxazoles is named. Part II carries no fungal or botanical name at all, and Part I's three botanical entries are «coca leaf», the poppy straw entry and the cannabis entry, so the Act's plant material list is three items long and this is not one of them. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. No offence attaches. The contrast with the three botanical entries in Part I is the whole answer: where Parliament wanted plant material controlled it named the material, and it did not name this. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Section 12 does not apply. The fungus is sold as a dried botanical and has no prescription form, and its two active constituents are not dispensed as medicines anywhere that was checked for this cell. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading Part I's three botanical entries and the whole of Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read Part I's three botanical entries and the whole of Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is a row where its International Non-Proprietary Name column reads «amfetamine», and its other non proprietary or trivial names column reads «amphetamine», and its chemical name column reads «(±)-α-methylphenethylamine». The list is built in three columns, an International Non-Proprietary Name, other non proprietary or trivial names, and a chemical name, and the placement is made by the row rather than by any one column. The neighbouring rows place the dextro, levo and N ethyl forms separately, so each isomer and each N substitution was scheduled on its own. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule names six controlled drugs and not one of them is a stimulant. Five are Part I plant drugs or opiates and the sixth is an isolated cannabinoid, so for this row the section 6(4) deeming provision is simply unavailable and the prosecution proves supply on the ordinary evidence or not at all. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance with a narrow therapeutic use, reached lawfully only through the section 12 regulations and a Barbados registered prescriber.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The three column row and the neighbouring isomer rows were read in Part II. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «(±)-α-methylphenethylamine», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. No alkyl nitrite of any chain length appears in Parts I to III. The Act also carries no general inhalant or volatile substance offence, so neither the substance route nor a conduct route reaches it on the text as read. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. No offence under this Act attaches. Section 9(2) punishes possessing equipment intended for use in connection with the misuse of a controlled drug, and since this is not one, the paraphernalia route closes with the substance route. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. This one has a real clinical history, which makes the boundary worth stating carefully. Some alkyl nitrites have been used as antidotes and as cardiac medicines, and where they are dispensed that is a medicines and pharmacy question. It is not a section 12 question, because section 12 operates on controlled drugs and no alkyl nitrite is one under this Act. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every chemical name in Parts I to III for a nitrite ester, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every chemical name in Parts I to III for a nitrite ester, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Reached only through a constituent: the brew and its plants are not named, the tryptamine is placed in Part II, and the harmala alkaloids have no entry. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». Neither the brew nor either plant used to make it is named in the First Schedule. The tryptamine that makes it active is named, in the trivial name column of Part II against the chemical name «3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl] indole», so the preparation is reached through a constituent and only once that constituent is identified. The other half of the brew is a different question again. The harmala alkaloids that make the tryptamine orally active have no entry anywhere in Parts I to III, so a preparation can be caught by one constituent and untouched as to the other. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets no figure, and for a liquid preparation it would be close to meaningless in any case, since most of the weight is water. The live questions are identification of the active constituent and the section 4(1) importation limb, which an arriving traveller engages before any possession question is reached. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The active constituent is a Part II psychotropic substance with no therapeutic use recognised in the Act, and the Act carries no ceremonial or religious exception.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. Part II was read end to end for a botanical name and carries none, and the constituent row was read against its chemical name column. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl] indole», neither plant used in the brew being named anywhere in the Schedule, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Barbiturates

Legal status: Twelve barbituric acid entries are named individually in Part II of the First Schedule, and the answer depends on identifying the specific compound by name. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the class check runs against the Barbados schedule itself and it returns members, so this is a finding and not a deferral. Part II of the First Schedule names twelve barbituric acid entries individually: «allobarbital», «amobarbital», «barbital», «butalbital», «butobarbital», «cyclobarbital», «methylphenobarbital», «pentobarbital», «phenobarbital», «secbutabarbital», «secobarbital» and «vinylbital». Several are printed with the chemical name beside them, so the placement is checkable compound by compound: «5-ethyl-5-isopentyl-barbituric acid», «5-allyl-5-isobutyl-barbituric acid», «5,5-diethylbarbituric acid», «5-ethyl-5-phenyl-barbituric acid», «5-allyl-5-(1-methylbutyl)barbituric acid» and «5,5-diallylbarbituric acid» among them. Because every one of the twelve sits in Part II and none in Part I, they share the narrower extension limbs, but they do not share an identity: the specific compound in hand must be identified by name before any answer is given, because a member that is on this list and a barbituric acid that is not are in completely different positions. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Not one of the twelve rows carries a figure in column 2 of the Second Schedule, so the class carries no threshold anywhere. The Fourth Schedule rows are the whole of the exposure, and they do not vary between the twelve, which is why the identification question in this cell is about which compound is controlled and not about how heavily. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Every member named in Part II is a controlled drug, so the section 12(3) practitioner carve out is the route for each of them, and the prescriber has to be on a Barbados register. Because the members are placed individually, a prescription for one named member says nothing about another, which is the practical reason to identify the compound before relying on any of this.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. All twelve barbituric acid rows were read in Part II, with the chemical name column checked against each headword. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at twelve barbituric acid rows, read with their chemical name column, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Mixed: five of the six members considered are placed in Part II of the First Schedule and one is not, so the answer depends on which member is in hand. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the class resolves member by member and the members do not agree, so the split is named rather than averaged. The five that are placed are printed with their chemical names, including «7-chloro-1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-5-phenyl-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one», «8-chloro-1-methyl-6-phenyl-4H-s-triazolo[4,3-α][1,4]benzodiazepine», «5-(o-chlorophenyl)-1,3-dihydro-7-nitro-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one», «7-chloro-5-(o-chlorophenyl)-1,3-dihydro-3-hydroxy-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one» and «1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one». The sixth, a triazolo fused thienodiazepine, has no row, although Part II does place one other thienodiazepine at «clotiazepam». Part II reaches around thirty further diazepine rows beyond these, so the class as a whole is substantially placed. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. No member of the class has a figure in column 2 of the Second Schedule. The split that matters is therefore binary rather than graduated: five members carry the full Fourth Schedule exposure for a controlled drug and the sixth carries none of it under this Act, with nothing in between. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The five members that are placed are controlled drugs and reach a lawful holding only through the section 12 regulations and a Barbados registered prescriber. The sixth is not placed, so the section 12 route does not apply to it under this Act, and that difference, not the class name, is what governs.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. All six members were checked one at a time against the Part II rows, and the thieno fused row that places a different member of the same ring system was read with them. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule, where five of the six members have a row and the sixth has none, read with the thieno fused row «clotiazepam» that places a different member of the same ring system, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is a row where its International Non-Proprietary Name column reads «buprenorphine», and its chemical name column reads «21-cyclopropyl-7-α-[(S)-1-hydroxy-1,2,2-trimethylpropyl]-6,14-endo-ethano-6,7,8,14-tetrahydrooripavine». The placement is in Part II and not in Part I, although the oripavine skeleton the chemical name describes also underlies the Part I entries «acetorphine» and «etorphine». The consequence is practical rather than cosmetic: Part I carries an ester and ether limb and Part II does not, so the extension limbs that apply to this entry are the narrower set. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule carries figures for four opiates and this is not one of them, which is worth stating plainly because the compound is an opioid and sits beside those four in ordinary use. Its placement in Part II rather than Part I is the reason the two lists diverge here. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance in ordinary use for opioid substitution and for pain, so the section 12(3) carve out is the route and section 26 lets the Minister direct a named practitioner to stop prescribing a specified controlled drug.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The row was read in Part II and the two oripavine entries in Part I, which is where the limb difference comes from. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «21-cyclopropyl-7-α-[(S)-1-hydroxy-1,2,2-trimethylpropyl]-6,14-endo-ethano-6,7,8,14-tetrahydrooripavine», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Caffeine

Legal status: Not a controlled drug under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act in Barbados, and other Barbados law on food and beverage composition was not read. Under that Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, it has no entry in any of the three Parts. The stimulant rows in Part II are enumerated by name, from «amfepramone» and «benzfetamine» through «mazindol», «pemoline», «phentermine», «pipradrol» and «pyrovalerone», and none of them is this compound. The xanthine skeleton appears once in the Schedule, inside the chemical name of the Part II entry «fenetylline», which is a theophylline conjugate and a different substance. Food and beverage composition in Barbados is governed elsewhere, and no such instrument was read, so nothing is asserted about it. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. No offence under this Act attaches to it, because every offence in Parts II to IV is framed against «a controlled drug» and section 3 makes that a schedule question. The section 8 misuse offence, the section 9 equipment offence and the section 18 trafficking offence all fail at the same first step. Part II controls stimulants extensively, by fifteen named rows, so the absence here is a choice about this compound rather than a gap in the Part's coverage of stimulants generally. Nothing in the Fourth Schedule attaches to it. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. It is not a controlled drug, so section 12 does not reach it. A medicine that combines it with an opiate is a different matter entirely, because the opiate limb of such a product is a Part I entry and the section 12 regulations govern that.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The fifteen named stimulant rows in Part II closest to it in use were read against this compound, and the one xanthine bearing chemical name in the Part was checked and belongs to a different substance. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule read end to end, including the fifteen named stimulant rows in Part II closest to it in use and the row whose chemical name carries a theophylline conjugate, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Cannabinol

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. This one is a genuine oddity in the drafting. Part V of the First Schedule defines «cannabinol derivatives» to mean «tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannobinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives», spelling the word two ways in one sentence. But the expression is never used in Part I, Part II or Part III, and the compound itself has no row. A definition that no operative list invokes controls nothing, so the defined expression does not place this compound. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. No offence attaches, and the Part V definition does not change that, because a definition unused by any operative list creates no placement and therefore no Fourth Schedule exposure. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Section 12 does not reach it on this reading, because the Part V definition that names its derivatives is never invoked by an operative list. It is present in aged plant material rather than dispensed, so no prescription attaches to it in isolation. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading Part V's definitions and every row of Parts I to III for the defined expression, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read Part V's definitions and every row of Parts I to III for the defined expression, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Placed in Part I of the First Schedule, the «list OF narcotic drugs under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is printed «cannabis (Indian Hemp) and Cannabis resin (Resin of Indian Hemp)». The Act supplies its own definitions at section 2: the plant limb means any plant of the genus Cannabis from which the resin has not been separated «and includes any part of that plant by whatever name it may be designated», while the resin limb means the separated resin «whether crude or purified». The schedule entry and the section 2 definitions therefore reach plant material and separated resin by two different routes. Part I then extends the list in five further paragraphs, reaching any stereoisomeric form other than dextromethorphan and dextrorphan, any ester or ether, any salt, any preparation or other product containing one, and any preparation designed for administration by injection. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets a trafficable quantity for this entry at «fifteen grammes». Section 6(4) then deems a person found with a trafficable quantity to possess it for supply «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused», so the quantity shifts the burden rather than merely raising the tier. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Cultivation has its own row. Section 11(2) covers cultivation of the cannabis plant, the coca plant or the opium poppy and is punished by a fine of $250,000 or 5 years summarily and $500,000 or 20 years on indictment. Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The plant limb is a Part I narcotic drug and no preparation of it is exempted on the face of the First Schedule, so the practitioner route is the only lawful one the Act provides.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The plant and resin limbs were read at the Part I entry and the fifteen gramme figure at column 2 of the Second Schedule. This cell carries a specific risk that the other eighty seven do not, and it is stated here rather than left to the general caveat. Cannabis is the substance a Caribbean legislature is most likely to have moved since 1991, and 1991 is the edition read. The Barbados law courts statute index was read in full on 20 September 2026 and lists no cannabis statute and no amending Act for Cap. 131, and the parliament laws site returns a document viewer shell rather than text, so no later instrument was reachable from where this cell was written. Treat the fifteen gramme figure and the cultivation offence as the 1991 position and confirm both against a current Barbados source before relying on either. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part I of the First Schedule at the entry «cannabis (Indian Hemp) and Cannabis resin (Resin of Indian Hemp)», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. Column 2 of the Second Schedule was read for this entry and carries «fifteen grammes». This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is a row where its International Non-Proprietary Name column reads «cathinone», and its chemical name column reads «(-)-(S)-2-aminopropiophenone». The reduced alcohol is placed separately. Part II carries «cathine» against the trivial name «(+)-norpseudoephedrine» and the chemical name «(+)-(R)-α-[(R)-1-aminoethyl]benzyl alcohol», so the ketone and the alcohol are two entries and neither reaches the other through the paragraph 2 stereoisomer limb. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Neither the ketone row nor the reduced alcohol row carries a figure in column 2 of the Second Schedule. Because both are normally encountered inside leaf material that is not itself scheduled, the weight of what is seized and the weight of the controlled drug are rarely the same number. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The ketone is a Part II psychotropic substance with no therapeutic use recognised in the Act. The reduced alcohol beside it does have a history of use as an appetite suppressant, and it is placed in the same Part, so neither member of the pair offers a lawful route outside the section 12 regulations.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. Both the ketone row and the reduced alcohol row were read in Part II. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «(-)-(S)-2-aminopropiophenone», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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CBD

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 as an isolated compound, but plant material remains controlled however it is described. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The compound has no row of its own, and the closed isomer list in Part II reaches only tetrahydro isomers and their stereochemical variants, which this is not. The route that does reach it is botanical rather than chemical: section 2 defines the plant limb to include «any part of that plant by whatever name it may be designated», while an isolated non tetrahydro cannabinoid has no placement of its own. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. The live exposure is not the compound but the material it came in. Plant material remains within the section 2 definition however it is labelled, and the cannabis row carries a fifteen gramme figure in column 2 of the Second Schedule, so a bottle of plant extract can put a person inside a threshold that the isolate itself would never engage. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The section 12 regulations do not reach the isolated compound, but they do reach the plant material it is extracted from, because section 2 defines the plant limb to include any part of the plant. A traveller carrying a plant derived preparation is therefore in a materially different position from one carrying a synthesised isolate, and the label on the bottle will not settle which they have. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading the closed isomer list in Part II and the section 2 plant definitions, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read the closed isomer list in Part II and the section 2 plant definitions, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is a row where its International Non-Proprietary Name column reads «clonazepam», and its chemical name column reads «5-(o-chlorophenyl)-1,3-dihydro-7-nitro-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one». The 7-nitro substitution is shared with two other rows, «nitrazepam» against «1,3-dihydro-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one» and the 1-methyl analogue, and the three differ only by an ortho chlorine and an N methyl. Each has its own row, which is the clearest illustration in this Part that close analogues are scheduled one by one. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets no figure for this row or for either of the two other 7-nitro rows. The practical consequence for a person carrying a repeat prescription without Barbados paperwork is that the exposure is the section 6(2) row and not the section 18(4) row. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance in ordinary prescribing use for seizure disorders, so the section 12(3) carve out is the route and it runs through a Barbados registration.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. All three 7-nitro rows were read together in Part II. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «5-(o-chlorophenyl)-1,3-dihydro-7-nitro-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Placed in Part I of the First Schedule, the «list OF narcotic drugs under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is printed «cocaine (methyl ester of benzoylecgonine)». Part I keeps the plant and the alkaloid apart. It lists «coca leaf» as its own entry and separately lists ecgonine, «its esters and derivatives which are convertible to ecgonine and cocaine», so leaf, intermediate and alkaloid are three distinct placements rather than one. Part I then extends the list in five further paragraphs, reaching any stereoisomeric form other than dextromethorphan and dextrorphan, any ester or ether, any salt, any preparation or other product containing one, and any preparation designed for administration by injection. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets a trafficable quantity for this entry at «one gramme». Section 6(4) then deems a person found with a trafficable quantity to possess it for supply «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused», so the quantity shifts the burden rather than merely raising the tier. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». One gramme is the lowest figure in the whole of column 2 of the Second Schedule, tied with the tetrahydrocannabinol row, so the deeming provision bites at a smaller amount here than for any opiate entry. Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The alkaloid sits in Part I, where the Act provides no exempted preparation limb at all, so a lawful holding depends entirely on the section 12 regulations.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The alkaloid entry, the coca leaf entry and the ecgonine limb were read together in Part I, and the one gramme figure at the Second Schedule. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part I of the First Schedule at the entry «cocaine (methyl ester of benzoylecgonine)», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. Column 2 of the Second Schedule was read for this entry and carries «one gramme». This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Placed in Part I of the First Schedule, the «list OF narcotic drugs under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is printed «codeine (3-methylmorphine)». Part I names the methylated opiate and then names its relatives separately, including «acetyldihydrocodeine», «codoxime (dihydrocodeinone-6-carboxymethyloxime)», «nicocodine (6-nicotinylcodeine or 6-(pyridine-3-carboxylic acid)-codeine ester)» and «nicodicodine (6-nicotinyldihyldrocodeine)», so the family is enumerated rather than captured by a class word. Part I then extends the list in five further paragraphs, reaching any stereoisomeric form other than dextromethorphan and dextrorphan, any ester or ether, any salt, any preparation or other product containing one, and any preparation designed for administration by injection. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule names six controlled drugs and this entry is not among them, so no quantity deems possession to be for supply and the section 18(1) trafficking limbs have to be made out on the conduct instead. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. This is a Part I narcotic drug with an ordinary therapeutic use, and the Act exempts no low strength preparation of it on the face of the First Schedule, which is the point a traveller carrying an over the counter combination product most often gets wrong.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The entry and the four neighbouring derivative entries were read in Part I, and column 2 of the Second Schedule was checked for a matching row and had none. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part I of the First Schedule at the entry «codeine (3-methylmorphine)», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Placed in Part I of the First Schedule, the «list OF narcotic drugs under control», as cocaine; there is no separate entry for a base form. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is printed «cocaine (methyl ester of benzoylecgonine)». The First Schedule names the alkaloid and its parenthetical chemical identity, and Part I paragraph 4 reaches «Any salt of a substance for the time being specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 3», so the free base and the hydrochloride are the same placement approached from two sides. Which form is in hand is an analytical question and not a scheduling one. Part I then extends the list in five further paragraphs, reaching any stereoisomeric form other than dextromethorphan and dextrorphan, any ester or ether, any salt, any preparation or other product containing one, and any preparation designed for administration by injection. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets a trafficable quantity for this entry at «one gramme». Section 6(4) then deems a person found with a trafficable quantity to possess it for supply «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused», so the quantity shifts the burden rather than merely raising the tier. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». The Second Schedule sets its figure against the alkaloid and not against any preparation, so the weight that matters is the weight the analyst reports against that entry. Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. No medical route exists for a smoked base preparation, and the Act's only lawful holding is the practitioner and pharmacist one built by the section 12 regulations.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The single alkaloid entry and the paragraph 4 salt limb were read in Part I, with the one gramme figure at the Second Schedule. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part I of the First Schedule at the single alkaloid entry «cocaine (methyl ester of benzoylecgonine)» together with the paragraph 4 salt limb that reaches the free base, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. Column 2 of the Second Schedule was read for this entry and carries «one gramme». This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control», among seven named tetrahydrocannabinol isomers and their stereochemical variants. That placement is made under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition. Part II does not place a single compound here. It carries a row whose trivial name column reads «THC, Tetrahydrocannabinol» and whose chemical name column opens «the following isomers and their stereochemical variants:» and then prints seven named isomers in full. The delta-8 form appears among them as «(6aR,10aR)-6a,7,10,10a-tetrahydro-6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pyran-1-ol». The isomer printed immediately after it differs only in which pair of ring positions is saturated, «(6aR,10aR)-6a,7,8,10a-tetrahydro-6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pyran-1-ol», and that one is the more familiar delta-9 form. Both are placed, so the distinction changes what has to be proved about identity and changes nothing about the placement. The list is closed by its own wording. It reaches the named isomers and their stereochemical variants and nothing else, so an isomer outside the seven, or a homologue carrying a different side chain, is outside the row however similar it looks. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets a trafficable quantity for this entry at «one gramme». Section 6(4) then deems a person found with a trafficable quantity to possess it for supply «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused», so the quantity shifts the burden rather than merely raising the tier. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Column 2 of the Second Schedule carries a row for this entry as well as for the plant, at the same figure as the coca alkaloid, so an isolated cannabinoid and an isolated coca alkaloid share the lowest threshold in the table. Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance, so the section 12 regulations govern and no exempted preparation limb appears on the face of the Part.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The seven isomer chemical names were read in full in Part II and the matching Second Schedule row was read at column 2. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the closed isomer list under the trivial name «THC, Tetrahydrocannabinol», specifically the isomer the fourth isomer printed there, «(6aR,10aR)-6a,7,10,10a-tetrahydro-6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pyran-1-ol», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. Column 2 of the Second Schedule was read for this entry and carries «one gramme». This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Diazepam

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is a row where its International Non-Proprietary Name column reads «diazepam», and its chemical name column reads «7-chloro-1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-5-phenyl-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one». The N demethylated metabolite has its own row, «nordazepam» against «7-chloro-1,3-dihydro-5-phenyl-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one», and the 3-hydroxy metabolite has another, so a metabolic chain that a laboratory sees as one series the Schedule treats as three placements. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets no figure for this row, nor for the two metabolite rows that sit with it. A seizure that contains parent and metabolite together is therefore two placements and one absence of any threshold. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance in ordinary prescribing use, reached lawfully through the section 12(3) practitioner carve out and a Barbados registration.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The row and the two metabolite rows were read together in Part II. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «7-chloro-1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-5-phenyl-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is a row where its other non proprietary or trivial names column reads «DMT», and its chemical name column reads «3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl] indole». The placement is in the trivial name column with no International Non-Proprietary Name against it. The diethyl homologue is placed separately two rows above, with the trivial name «det» against «3-(2-(diethylamino)ethyl] indole», so the N substituted tryptamines are enumerated one by one and the list carries no homologue clause. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule is silent for this row, so nothing is deemed. Where the compound is presented as a plant extract the section 39(3) identity provision does the work that a quantity rule does elsewhere, because what has to be proved is what the extract contains. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance with no therapeutic use recognised in the Act, so the prescription question does not arise.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The trivial name row and the diethyl homologue row were read together in Part II. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl] indole», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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DOM

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». That placement is made under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition. The trivial name column carries both the three letter street abbreviation and the chemical abbreviation in a single table field, and the second of the two is damaged in the scan, so the identification here rests on the chemical name column. The 2,5-dimethoxy pattern appears three times in Part II and each time on its own row: against «dob» with a 4-bromo substituent, against «doet» with a 4-ethyl substituent, and here with a 4-methyl substituent. The list schedules substitution patterns one at a time and carries no ring substitution clause. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. None of the three 2,5-dimethoxy rows carries a figure in column 2 of the Second Schedule. Because an active dose is a few milligrams, the practical exposure is set entirely by the Fourth Schedule rows and by which section 18(1) limb the conduct falls into. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance with no therapeutic use recognised in the Act.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. All three 2,5-dimethoxy rows were read together in Part II so that the substitution pattern point rests on the text rather than on inference. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «2,5-dimethoxy-α,4-dimethylphenethylamine», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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DXM

Legal status: Not in the First Schedule, and expressly named in order to be kept out of it. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, Part I paragraph 2 extends the narcotic drug list to «Any stereoisomeric form of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 above not being dextromethorphan or dextrorphan», so the drafter reached the point at which the stereoisomer limb would have caught this compound through its levorotatory counterpart and wrote an express carve out instead. That counterpart, «levomethorphan ((-)-3-methoxy-N-methylmorphinan)», is itself a Part I entry, which is precisely why the carve out was needed. An express exclusion is a stronger finding than an absence, and it is treated as one here. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The express carve out in Part I paragraph 2 settles the substance question, so no Fourth Schedule row attaches on the strength of the schedule. The figures are worth naming for contrast: the levorotatory counterpart that the carve out exists to distinguish is a Part I entry, and possession of it would draw a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years on indictment. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The express carve out in Part I paragraph 2 means the section 12 regulations do not reach it under this Act. It is an over the counter cough suppressant in most places, and the carve out is the reason a syrup containing it is not treated as containing a stereoisomer of a Part I entry. Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and may still restrict the strength at which it is sold. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The carve out was read at Part I paragraph 2 and the counterpart entry it distinguishes was read in the Part I list itself. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part I of the First Schedule at paragraph 2, which excludes it by name from the stereoisomer limb, and the counterpart entry «levomethorphan ((-)-3-methoxy-N-methylmorphinan)» that the carve out distinguishes, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Ephedrine

Legal status: A controlled drug, as a listed substance under Part III of the First Schedule. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, that status is within section 3(1)(iii). Part III is headed «list OF substances under control» and is printed as two columns, Table I and Table II. This entry heads Table I, above «Ergometrine», «Ergotamine», «Lysergic acid», «1-phenyl-2-propanone» and «Pseudoephedrine», while Table II holds the bulk chemicals «Acetic anhydride», «Acetone», «Anthranilic acid», «Ethyl ether», «Phenylacetic acid» and «Piperidine». Paragraph 2 adds «The salts of the substances listed in either Table... whenever the existence of such salts is possible». Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule names six controlled drugs and this entry is not among them, so the section 6(4) deeming provision never engages and a trafficking allegation under section 18(1) has to rest on the importing, supplying or possessing conduct itself. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part III listed substance is still a controlled drug for the purposes of section 3, so section 6(1) and the section 12 regulations apply to it as they apply to a Part I or Part II entry, and a decongestant bought over the counter abroad does not carry an exemption across the border.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. Both Tables of Part III were read in full, together with the paragraph 2 salts limb. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part III of the First Schedule, Table I, with the paragraph 2 salts limb and Table II read alongside it, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Etizolam

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. This is the sharpest single absence in the Part, because the ring system is scheduled and this member is not. Part II places «clotiazepam» against «5-(o-chlorophenyl)-7-ethyl-1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-2H-thieno[2,3-e]-1,4-diazepin-2-one», which is a thienodiazepine, so Parliament reached into that ring system and placed one member of it. The triazolo fused member has no row, and paragraph 2 of Part II covers stereoisomeric forms only. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. No offence attaches to it as a substance. The exposure that remains is that it is sold as and mistaken for placed diazepines, and a prosecution that proves a placed one succeeds whatever the accused believed, subject to section 39. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. This is the one absence on this list where a prescription genuinely exists: the compound is a licensed medicine in a small number of countries. Because no Part II row places it, the section 12 regulations do not govern it under this Act, and a foreign prescription for it is a medicines question rather than a controlled drug one. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every diazepine row in Part II, including the thieno fused one, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every diazepine row in Part II, including the thieno fused one, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Placed in Part I of the First Schedule, the «list OF narcotic drugs under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is printed «fentanyl (1-phenethyl-4-N-propionylanilinopiperidine)». The analogues are enumerated individually rather than by a class word. Part I separately names «acetyl-alpha-methylfentanyl», «alpha-methylfentanyl», the 3-methyl analogue and «sufentanil», so a analogue that Parliament did not name is not caught by the parent entry. Part I then extends the list in five further paragraphs, reaching any stereoisomeric form other than dextromethorphan and dextrorphan, any ester or ether, any salt, any preparation or other product containing one, and any preparation designed for administration by injection. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. There is no Second Schedule figure for this entry, which matters more here than elsewhere because the active dose is small and a quantity rule set for plant drugs would not have described it. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part I narcotic drug in hospital and palliative use, lawful only under the section 12 regulations through a Barbados registered practitioner or pharmacist.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The parent entry and the four named analogue entries were read together in Part I. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part I of the First Schedule at the entry «fentanyl (1-phenethyl-4-N-propionylanilinopiperidine)», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Gabapentin

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. There is no row for it and no row for the related aminomethyl cyclohexane acetic acid series. Part II's sedative and anticonvulsant rows are named medicines, «meprobamate», «glutethimide», «methyprylon», «ethchlorvynol» and «ethinamate», and this is not among them. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing in the Fourth Schedule attaches. It is dispensed in capsules that look like any other, so the realistic risk is a seizure of mixed medication in which something else present is placed. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. It is a prescription medicine in ordinary use and it is not a controlled drug under this Act, so the section 12 regulations do not govern it. Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell, so a visitor should assume an import formality may exist and confirm it rather than inferring from this cell that none does. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every non benzodiazepine sedative row in Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every non benzodiazepine sedative row in Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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GBL

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. Neither the lactone nor the hydroxy acid it converts to appears in Parts I or II, and Part III's precursor Tables are short and closed. Table II lists «Acetic anhydride», «Acetone», «Anthranilic acid», «Ethyl ether», «Phenylacetic acid» and «Piperidine», six bulk chemicals, and this lactone is not one of them although it is an industrial solvent of the same kind. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing attaches under this Act. The contrast with Part III Table II is the useful one: six industrial chemicals are controlled there as precursors and this solvent is not among them, although it is used in the same way. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Section 12 does not reach it. It is an industrial solvent rather than a medicine, and the documentation that matters for it is commercial, which is exactly the kind of thing the Part III Table II bulk chemical controls address for other solvents and do not address for this one. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading both Tables of Part III in full and every row of Parts I and II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read both Tables of Part III in full and every row of Parts I and II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The hydroxy acid has no row in Part I or Part II and no place in either Table of Part III. The Act carries no analogue clause and no clause reaching a substance by its effect, so a depressant that Parliament did not name is outside the Act however it behaves. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. No offence attaches under this Act, which is a marked divergence from many jurisdictions and should be treated as a fact about this Schedule rather than as a general position. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. There is a licensed medicinal use of the sodium salt for a sleep disorder in some countries, so a genuine prescription can exist. It is still not a controlled drug under this Act, so section 12 does not govern it and the import question falls to be answered by medicines law that was not read for this cell. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every row of Parts I and II and both Tables of Part III, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every row of Parts I and II and both Tables of Part III, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Placed in Part I of the First Schedule, the «list OF narcotic drugs under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is printed «heroin (diacetylmorphine)». The schedule uses the trade name as its headword and the diacetyl chemical identity as its parenthesis, and it lists the parent opiate, its N oxide derivatives and its demethylated form as separate entries, so a diacetylated product and its parent are distinct placements. Part I then extends the list in five further paragraphs, reaching any stereoisomeric form other than dextromethorphan and dextrorphan, any ester or ether, any salt, any preparation or other product containing one, and any preparation designed for administration by injection. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets a trafficable quantity for this entry at «two grammes». Section 6(4) then deems a person found with a trafficable quantity to possess it for supply «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused», so the quantity shifts the burden rather than merely raising the tier. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Two grammes is the figure the Second Schedule prints, and it is the only row in that column that repeats the parenthetical chemical identity from the First Schedule entry. Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The entry sits in Part I with no exempted preparation limb, so there is no route to a lawful holding outside the section 12 regulations.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The Part I entry and the two gramme figure in the Second Schedule were read on the same pass. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part I of the First Schedule at the entry «heroin (diacetylmorphine)», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. Column 2 of the Second Schedule was read for this entry and carries «two grammes». This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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HHC

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The row that looks closest is closed by its own wording, reaching «the following isomers and their stereochemical variants» and nothing else, and this compound is not an isomer of them. It carries two hydrogen atoms more and so a different molecular formula, and a limb expressed in the language of isomerism cannot reach a compound that is not an isomer. The point has to be put that way and not in terms of saturation, because the seventh entry in that closed list is itself a hexahydro compound, «(6aR,10aR)-6a,7,8,9,10,10a-hexahydro-6,6-dimethyl-9-methylene-3-pentyl-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pyran-1-ol». Degree of ring saturation is therefore not what decides the question here. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. No offence attaches to it as a substance, but it is sold in vapes and edibles alongside placed isomers and often in the same packaging, so a seizure of a mixed consignment can contain both. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Section 12 does not reach it. It is sold as a consumer cannabinoid product rather than dispensed, and a product label describing it will not distinguish it from the placed isomers to anyone who is not testing it. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading the seven named isomers in Part II, including the hexahydro one, and the hexyl side chain row «parahexyl» beside them, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read the seven named isomers in Part II, including the hexahydro one, and the hexyl side chain row «parahexyl» beside them, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Placed in Part I of the First Schedule, the «list OF narcotic drugs under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is printed «hydrocodone (dihydrocodeinone)». The parenthesis gives the dihydro ketone identity, and the same identity reappears in the Part I entries «thebacon (acetyldihydrocodeinone)» and «oxycodone (14-hydroxydihydrocodeinone)», so three separate entries are built on one skeleton and each was placed individually. Part I then extends the list in five further paragraphs, reaching any stereoisomeric form other than dextromethorphan and dextrorphan, any ester or ether, any salt, any preparation or other product containing one, and any preparation designed for administration by injection. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. No row in column 2 of the Second Schedule names this entry, so the trafficable quantity deeming provision in section 6(4) never engages and the prosecution carries the supply question on the ordinary evidence. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. It is a Part I narcotic drug in ordinary prescribing use, so the section 12(3) practitioner carve out is the route, and it is a Barbados registration that unlocks it.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The entry, its parenthetical identity and the two neighbouring entries sharing that skeleton were read in Part I. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part I of the First Schedule at the entry «hydrocodone (dihydrocodeinone)», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Ketamine

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The Part II arylcyclohexylamine family is four rows long and every one of them is a cyclohexylamine rather than a cyclohexanone. This compound is the chlorinated N methyl cyclohexanone of that family and it has no row. Its absence matters more than most on this list, because it is a medicine in ordinary hospital use and its placement is therefore the kind of thing a section 3(2) order would address. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing in the Fourth Schedule attaches to it as a substance. The route that remains is section 20(3), which reaches a person who supplies it held out as a controlled drug, and that is not unusual for a compound sold under other names. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. This is the most consequential absence on the list for a traveller, because the compound is a hospital anaesthetic and a veterinary one in daily use. It is not a controlled drug under this Act as read, so section 12 does not govern it, and its handling in Barbados clinical practice will be governed by medicines and pharmacy law that was not read for this cell. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every arylcyclohexylamine row in Part II and every anaesthetic entry in Part I, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every arylcyclohexylamine row in Part II and every anaesthetic entry in Part I, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Khat

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 as plant material, though both of its principal alkaloids are named in Part II. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The shrub is not named. Part II places «cathinone» against «(-)-(S)-2-aminopropiophenone» and «cathine» against «(+)-(R)-α-[(R)-1-aminoethyl]benzyl alcohol». So leaf material is not a scheduled item as material, and the question becomes an analytical one about what the material is proved to contain. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. The leaf is not a scheduled item but its two principal alkaloids are Part II entries, so a quantity of leaf can produce a charge on the strength of what the analyst finds rather than on the weight of what was seized. Neither alkaloid has a figure in column 2 of the Second Schedule. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Section 12 does not reach the leaf, because the leaf is not a scheduled item. It reaches both of the leaf's principal alkaloids, which are Part II entries, so a person carrying leaf material is carrying something whose legal character depends on what an analyst finds in it rather than on what it is called. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading Part I's three botanical entries and both alkaloid rows in Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read Part I's three botanical entries and both alkaloid rows in Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Kratom

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. Neither the tree, nor its leaf, nor either of its two indole alkaloids appears anywhere in the Schedule. This is a cleaner absence than the shrub two entries away, where the leaf is unnamed but the alkaloids are placed: here nothing in the series is placed at all, so no analytical route reaches it either. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. No offence attaches at any point in the chain, neither to the leaf nor to either alkaloid, which makes this a cleaner absence than the leaf two entries away where the alkaloids are placed. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The section 12 regulations do not reach it. It is sold as a botanical supplement and not dispensed, so no prescription exists, and unlike the leaf two entries away its alkaloids are not placed either, so there is no analytical route into the Act at all. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading Part I's three botanical entries, every indole row in Part II and both Tables of Part III, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read Part I's three botanical entries, every indole row in Part II and both Tables of Part III, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is a row where its International Non-Proprietary Name column reads «lorazepam», and its chemical name column reads «7-chloro-5-(o-chlorophenyl)-1,3-dihydro-3-hydroxy-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one». The 3-hydroxy substitution is the feature that puts the lorazepam row beside «lormetazepam», «oxazepam» and «temazepam», each of which carries the same hydroxyl in its own chemical name column and each of which occupies its own row. Four hydroxylated members, four placements. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets no figure for this row or for the three other hydroxylated rows. Quantity is admissible as evidence of an intention to supply under section 6(3) and that is the whole of its role. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance in ordinary prescribing use, so the section 12(3) carve out is the route and it turns on a Barbados registration.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. All four 3-hydroxy rows were read together in Part II. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «7-chloro-5-(o-chlorophenyl)-1,3-dihydro-3-hydroxy-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: No entry in the First Schedule makes it a controlled drug: the compound itself has no entry, and what Part III Table I lists is «Ergometrine», «Ergotamine» and «Lysergic acid», which are precursor and related ergot alkaloids rather than the amide in question. That is the position under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition. A Table I listing is a precursor control and not a Part I or Part II placement. The seeds and the plants that carry the amide are not named anywhere in the First Schedule, and Part II reaches the ergoline family only at the diethylamide row. So the family is controlled at three points and this compound is at none of them. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Because no entry places it, none of the Fourth Schedule rows attaches to it as a substance. The rows that could still matter are conduct rows: section 20(3) punishes supplying a substance «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug» with a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and section 32 punishes assisting in or inducing the commission outside Barbados of an offence punishable under a corresponding law on the same figures. The precursor entries in Part III that sit near this compound are themselves controlled drugs for section 3 purposes, so a mistaken identification in either direction changes the answer completely, which is the practical reason to resolve identity before anything else. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Nothing here is a prescribing question. The Act's practitioner carve out under section 12(3) operates on controlled drugs, and no entry was found that makes this one.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. Part III Table I was read in full and Part II was read end to end for an ergoline row. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part III Table I and the whole of Part II, neither of which places the compound, the Table I ergot entries being precursor controls, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». That placement is made under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition. The International Non-Proprietary Name column carries the lysergide headword with a stereochemical prefix, and one character of that headword is damaged in the scan, so it is described rather than quoted. The trivial name column is clean and prints both the two letter and the numbered form. The ergoline family is split across two Parts. The parent acid sits in Part III Table I as a precursor and is not a controlled drug in the Part II sense, while the diethylamide sits in Part II, so the same molecular family is controlled by two different mechanisms with different offences attached. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. An active dose here is measured in micrograms, and column 2 of the Second Schedule sets no figure for this row, so weight is not a metric the Act uses for it anywhere. The blotter carrying it is not the drug, and section 39(3) governs what the accused must be shown to have known about what was on it. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance with no therapeutic use recognised in the Act, so no prescription route exists at all.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The three column row was read in Part II and the parent acid entry in Part III Table I, which is what makes the two mechanism point checkable. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «9,10-didehydro-N,N-diethyl-6-methylergoline-8β-carboxamide», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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MDA

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. Part II places the N methylated methylenedioxy compound against «(±)-N,α-dimethyl-3,4-(methylenedioxy)phenethylamine» and places the methoxy bearing relative against the trivial name «mmda». The primary amine of that series has no row, and it is not a stereoisomer, a salt or a preparation of either compound that is placed. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing attaches to it as a substance on this reading. It is routinely sold as the placed N methylated compound, so the realistic charge proves that compound, and the section 39(3) identity provision then governs what the accused had to know. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Section 12 does not reach it on this reading, and the correction matters for a traveller: a person told that this compound is placed would reasonably conclude the section 12 regulations govern it, and on the Schedule as read they do not. It has no prescription form in any case. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every methylenedioxy row in Part II and all four of its extension paragraphs, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every methylenedioxy row in Part II and all four of its extension paragraphs, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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MDMA

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». That placement is made under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition. The placement is made in the chemical name column, and the trivial name column is damaged in the scan and prints the four letters imperfectly, so the identification rests on the chemical name rather than on the acronym. The methylenedioxy family is enumerated and not captured by a class word. The row below carries the trivial name «mmda» against «2-methoxy-α-methyl-4,5-(methylenedioxy)phenethylamine», a different compound placed in its own right, and the primary amine of this series has no row at all. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets no figure for this row, so a tablet count goes to intention under section 6(3) rather than triggering anything automatically. Section 20(3) is worth noting alongside it, because a tablet sold under this name that proves to contain something else is caught by the holding out offence on the same summary figures. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance with no therapeutic use recognised in the Act, so no prescription route exists and the section 12 regulations are the only lawful holding.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The chemical name column was read against the trivial name column in Part II, and the neighbouring methylenedioxy row was read with it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «(±)-N,α-dimethyl-3,4-(methylenedioxy)phenethylamine», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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MDPV

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The pyrrolidinyl ketone pattern does appear in Part II, at «pyrovalerone» against «4-methyl-2-(1-pyrrolidinyl)valerophenone», so Parliament placed one member of this structural family. The methylenedioxy member is a different compound with no row, and paragraph 2 of Part II reaches stereoisomeric forms only. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. No offence attaches. It is commonly sold as a substitute for placed stimulants, so section 20(3) and the section 18(2)(b) belief limb are the routes that remain open. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. No section 12 route applies. The compound has no therapeutic use and no prescription form, and the structurally related Part II entry that does exist is an obsolete stimulant rather than a current medicine. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading the pyrrolidinyl ketone row and every ketone row in Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read the pyrrolidinyl ketone row and every ketone row in Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Memantine

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The adamantane ring system appears in no chemical name anywhere in Parts I to III. Part II's medicine rows are named individually and this is not among them, and the Act has no clause reaching a substance by its receptor action. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing attaches. The compound has no recreational market to speak of, so even the holding out and belief limbs are unlikely to be in point. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. It is a prescription medicine for dementia in ordinary use, and it is not a controlled drug under this Act, so section 12 does not govern it. The import formalities that do apply come from medicines and pharmacy law that was not read for this cell, so confirm rather than assume. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every chemical name in Parts I to III for an adamantane ring, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every chemical name in Parts I to III for an adamantane ring, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The ketone of this series is placed in Part II and this is its 4 methyl N methyl member. Part II extends to stereoisomeric forms, salts and preparations and to nothing else, and a ring methylation together with an N methylation is none of those three. The member therefore stands outside a Part that contains its immediate parent. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. No offence attaches to it as a substance. Because its immediate parent is placed, a prosecution that proves the parent succeeds, and the difference between the two is a single ring methyl group that only a laboratory will see. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Section 12 does not reach it and it has no prescription form. Its immediate parent is a Part II entry, which means a person who cannot tell the two apart cannot tell whether the section 12 regime applies to what they are holding. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading both scheduled members of that ketone series and all four extension paragraphs of Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read both scheduled members of that ketone series and all four extension paragraphs of Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is a row where its other non proprietary or trivial names column reads «mescaline», and its chemical name column reads «3,4,5-trimethoxy-phenethylamine». The placement is made in the trivial name column, with the International Non-Proprietary Name column left empty for that row, which is how Part II handles compounds that never acquired an INN. The trimethoxy pattern reappears two rows away against the trivial name «tma», a different compound with its own row. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets no figure for this row, and it could not usefully have done so, because the compound is almost always encountered inside plant material that is not itself a scheduled item. Weight of material and weight of controlled drug are different quantities here. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance with no therapeutic use recognised in the Act, so the prescription question does not arise and the section 12 regulations are the whole story.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The trivial name column and the chemical name column were read together in Part II, with the neighbouring trimethoxy row read alongside. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «3,4,5-trimethoxy-phenethylamine», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Placed in Part I of the First Schedule, the «list OF narcotic drugs under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is printed «methadone (6-dimethylamino-4,4-diphenyl-3-heptanone)». The synthetic is placed with its manufacturing intermediate and its relatives as separate entries, «methadone-intermediate (4-cyano-2-dimethylamino-4,4-diphenylbutane)», «isomethadone (6-dimethylamino-5-methyl-4,4-diphenyl-3-hexanone)» and the hexanone homologue, so the chain from intermediate to product is controlled at each step. Part I then extends the list in five further paragraphs, reaching any stereoisomeric form other than dextromethorphan and dextrorphan, any ester or ether, any salt, any preparation or other product containing one, and any preparation designed for administration by injection. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. No Second Schedule row names it, so the section 6(4) deeming provision does not reach it and a supply allegation must be proved on its own facts. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. It is a Part I narcotic drug used in substitution treatment, and the Act's only lawful holding route runs through the section 12 regulations and a Barbados registered prescriber, with section 26 letting the Minister direct that a named practitioner stop prescribing a specified controlled drug.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The entry, its intermediate and the two homologue entries were read together in Part I. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part I of the First Schedule at the entry «methadone (6-dimethylamino-4,4-diphenyl-3-heptanone)», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is a row where its International Non-Proprietary Name column reads «metamfetamine», and its other non proprietary or trivial names column reads «methamphetamine», and its chemical name column reads «(+)-(S)-N,α-dimethylphenethylamine». The racemate has its own row. Part II prints a second row whose name column reads «metamfetamine racemate» against the trivial name «methamphetamine racemate», so the single enantiomer and the racemic mixture were each placed expressly rather than left to the stereoisomer limb in paragraph 2. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Neither the single enantiomer row nor the racemate row carries a figure in column 2 of the Second Schedule. The isomeric distinction that separates those two rows therefore changes what has to be proved about identity and changes nothing at all about the threshold. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance with no ordinary prescribing use in this form, so the practical position is that no lawful private holding exists.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. Both the single enantiomer row and the racemate row were read in Part II. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «(+)-(S)-N,α-dimethylphenethylamine», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is a row where its International Non-Proprietary Name column reads «methaqualone», and its chemical name column reads «2-methyl-3-o-tolyl-4(3H)-quinazolinone». The quinazolinone family has two rows, this one and «mecloqualone» against «3-(o-chlorophenyl)-2-methyl-4(3H)-quinazolinone», which differ only in the ring substituent, so the chlorinated relative was scheduled expressly rather than left to a class word. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets no figure for this row, although the compound is normally encountered as a pressed tablet of a weight that would have made one workable. That is a drafting choice of 1990 and not an oversight to be read around. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance long withdrawn from therapeutic use, so no prescription route exists in practice and section 6(1) governs.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. Both quinazolinone rows were read in Part II. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «2-methyl-3-o-tolyl-4(3H)-quinazolinone», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Methylone

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The methylenedioxy pattern is placed in Part II on the phenethylamine rows and the aminopropiophenone pattern is placed on its own row, but no row combines the two. This compound is that combination, and combining two scheduled patterns does not produce a scheduled substance where the Part has no class clause. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing attaches. It is sold interchangeably with a placed methylenedioxy compound, so the section 20(3) holding out offence and the section 18(2)(b) belief limb are both live although the Schedule is not. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. No section 12 route applies and no prescription exists. The compound combines two separately scheduled structural features without being scheduled itself, so no amount of reasoning from its structure will tell a traveller where they stand. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every methylenedioxy row and every ketone row in Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every methylenedioxy row and every ketone row in Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». That placement is made under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition. The headword is spaced irregularly in the scan, which is a defect of the scan and not of the statute, so it is given here as the schedule intends it. The chemical name column is the only one in that row that is filled besides the International Non-Proprietary Name, and the piperidine ring it names reappears in Part III Table II, where piperidine itself is listed as a controlled precursor chemical. The two placements are unrelated in law and it is worth saying so. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets no figure for this row. The offence most likely to be in point for a person holding it without a Barbados prescription is therefore section 6(2) simple possession rather than anything in section 18. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance in ordinary prescribing use for attention disorders, so the section 12(3) practitioner carve out matters here more than for most Part II rows, and it runs through a Barbados registration.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The row was read in Part II and the piperidine entry in Part III Table II, which is what the distinction above is drawn from. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «Methyl α-phenyl-2-piperidineacetate», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Mitragynine

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The principal alkaloid of the tree has no row, and neither has the tree nor its hydroxylated alkaloid. Part II does place indole alkaloids where Parliament wanted them, at the two tryptamine rows and the two 4 substituted rows, so the Part is not blind to the indole class and this series is simply not in it. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. No offence attaches. The alkaloid, the minor alkaloid derived from it and the tree itself are all outside the Schedule, so there is no analytical route into the Act either. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Section 12 does not reach it. It is the principal alkaloid of a botanical supplement rather than a dispensed medicine, and no marketing authorisation for it was found for this cell in any jurisdiction. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every indole row in Part II and every alkaloid entry in Part I, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every indole row in Part II and every alkaloid entry in Part I, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Modafinil

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. Part II's stimulant rows are a long enumeration of named medicines, «amfepramone», «benzfetamine», «etilamfetamine», «fencamfamin», «fenproporex», «lefetamine», «mazindol», «mefenorex», «pemoline», «phendimetrazine», «phenmetrazine», «phentermine», «pipradrol», «propylhexedrine» and «pyrovalerone», fifteen rows, and this compound is none of them. The diphenylmethyl sulphinyl acetamide skeleton appears in no chemical name in the Part. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing in the Fourth Schedule attaches. It is dispensed as a plain tablet and its realistic exposure in a seizure is that it is mistaken for a placed stimulant until it is tested. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. It is a prescription medicine for narcolepsy and related disorders and it is widely controlled elsewhere, which makes its absence here worth stating. Section 12 does not govern it under this Act. A visitor holding a genuine prescription should confirm the import position under Barbados medicines law, which was not read for this cell. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading those fifteen named stimulant rows in Part II, one at a time, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read those fifteen named stimulant rows in Part II, one at a time, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Morphine

Legal status: Placed in Part I of the First Schedule, the «list OF narcotic drugs under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is printed «morphine». The headword stands alone with no parenthetical chemical name, which is unusual in a list where almost every entry carries one. Part I then names the derivative families separately: «morphine methobromide and other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives, including in particular the morphine-N-oxide derivatives, one of which is Codeine-n-oxide», and «normorphine (demethylmorphine) or (N-demethylated morphine)». Part I then extends the list in five further paragraphs, reaching any stereoisomeric form other than dextromethorphan and dextrorphan, any ester or ether, any salt, any preparation or other product containing one, and any preparation designed for administration by injection. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets a trafficable quantity for this entry at «three grammes». Section 6(4) then deems a person found with a trafficable quantity to possess it for supply «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused», so the quantity shifts the burden rather than merely raising the tier. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Three grammes is the figure in column 2, sitting between the one gramme and the two gramme rows and well below the fifty five gramme row. Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. This is a Part I narcotic drug with a recognised therapeutic use, so the practitioner and pharmacist carve out in section 12(3) is the route that matters in practice.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The bare headword, the pentavalent nitrogen derivative entry and the demethylated entry were read in Part I, and the three gramme figure at the Second Schedule. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part I of the First Schedule at the entry «morphine», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. Column 2 of the Second Schedule was read for this entry and carries «three grammes». This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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MXE

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The closed set of four arylcyclohexylamines in Part II contains no cyclohexanone at all, so neither the parent anaesthetic of this series nor its N ethyl methoxy derivative is reached. Two steps away from a scheduled row is still outside it where the Part has no analogue clause. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. No offence attaches. Both this compound and the medicine it substitutes for are outside the Schedule, so unusually there is no adjacent placed compound for a prosecution to fall back on. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Section 12 does not reach it and no prescription exists for it. It was developed as a substitute for a medicine that is itself unplaced here, so neither the substitute nor the original is reached by the section 12 regime under this Act. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every arylcyclohexylamine row in Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every arylcyclohexylamine row in Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Nicotine

Legal status: Not a controlled drug under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act in Barbados, and other Barbados legislation on tobacco was not read. Under that Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, there is no entry for it in Parts I to III. Part II schedules alkaloids by name where Parliament wanted them, including «cathinone» and «cathine», and no row names this alkaloid or the plant that carries it. Tobacco control, excise and sale restrictions in Barbados are the subject of other legislation that was not read. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. No offence under this Act attaches to it, because every offence in Parts II to IV is framed against «a controlled drug» and section 3 makes that a schedule question. The section 8 misuse offence, the section 9 equipment offence and the section 18 trafficking offence all fail at the same first step. The comparison that makes the absence meaningful is with the leaf alkaloids that Part II does place, where leaf material is unscheduled and the alkaloids are not. Here neither the plant nor the alkaloid is placed, so no offence under this Act arises at any point. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. It is not a controlled drug, so section 12 does not reach it, and a nicotine replacement product is outside this Act whatever its strength. Barbados medicines and retail law was not read for this cell.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. Part II was read end to end for an alkaloid row and Part I for a botanical entry, and both the plant and the alkaloid are absent from each. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule read end to end, including the two alkaloid rows in Part II that place the active constituents of a chewed leaf, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is a row where its International Non-Proprietary Name column reads «nimetazepam», and its chemical name column reads «1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one». That row sits immediately above the unmethylated 7-nitro member and differs from it by a single N methyl group, and both are placed expressly. The paragraph 2 limb of Part II covers stereoisomeric forms only, so an N methylation would not have been caught by it and Parliament had to schedule this member on its own. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets no figure for this row. The compound is not marketed as a medicine in most places, so a holding is unlikely to be explicable by a prescription at all, which moves the realistic exposure towards section 6(3) rather than section 6(2). Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance that is not marketed in most jurisdictions, so in practice no prescription route exists although the section 12 regulations would govern one.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The row and the unmethylated row below it were read together in Part II. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Nitrous Oxide

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. No inorganic gas of any kind appears in Parts I to III, which are lists of organic compounds with the sole exception of the bulk chemical Table. Section 8 punishes misuse of «a controlled drug» and so cannot reach a substance that is not one, and the Act contains no separate inhalant offence. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. No offence under this Act attaches, and neither the section 8 misuse offence nor the section 9 equipment offence can reach the canisters and dispensers used with it, because both are framed against a controlled drug. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The gas has a genuine and current medical and dental use, so a clinical supply chain exists. It is not a controlled drug under this Act, so section 12 does not govern it, and whatever restrictions apply to its sale and supply in Barbados come from legislation that was not read for this cell. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading both Tables of Part III and every row of Parts I and II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read both Tables of Part III and every row of Parts I and II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Opium

Legal status: Placed in Part I of the First Schedule, the «list OF narcotic drugs under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is printed «opium (whether raw, prepared or medicinal) the opium poppy». Part V of the First Schedule then defines the limbs of that entry: «medicinal opium» means raw opium adapted for medicinal use «in accordance with the requirements of the British Pharmocoposia», «opium poppy» means «the plant of the species Papaver somniferum L», «poppy-straw» means «all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy, after mowing», and «raw opium» «includes powdered or granulated opium but does not include medicinal opium». The spelling of the pharmacopoeia is the scan's own. Part I then extends the list in five further paragraphs, reaching any stereoisomeric form other than dextromethorphan and dextrorphan, any ester or ether, any salt, any preparation or other product containing one, and any preparation designed for administration by injection. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets a trafficable quantity for this entry at «fifty-five grammes». Section 6(4) then deems a person found with a trafficable quantity to possess it for supply «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused», so the quantity shifts the burden rather than merely raising the tier. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Fifty five grammes is by a wide margin the largest figure in column 2, some fifty five times the smallest, which is what one expects of a crude plant preparation measured against an isolated alkaloid. Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The Act itself contemplates a medicinal grade, but that grade is defined in Part V and it does not create a private route: section 6(1) still makes possession unlawful except under the section 12 regulations.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The entry was read in Part I and its four defined limbs in Part V, with the fifty five gramme figure at the Second Schedule. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part I of the First Schedule at the entry «opium (whether raw, prepared or medicinal) the opium poppy», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. Column 2 of the Second Schedule was read for this entry and carries «fifty-five grammes». This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Placed in Part I of the First Schedule, the «list OF narcotic drugs under control». That placement is made under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition. The headword is damaged in the scan and is not reproduced here as though it were legible. The parenthetical chemical identity beside it is clean and reads «(14-hydroxydihydrocodeinone)», and the entry immediately below it is «oxymorphone (14-hydroxydihydromorphinone)», the matching morphinone. A scan that has lost a character in a headword is still a primary source for the parenthesis that survives, and the two are reported separately here for that reason. Part I then extends the list in five further paragraphs, reaching any stereoisomeric form other than dextromethorphan and dextrorphan, any ester or ether, any salt, any preparation or other product containing one, and any preparation designed for administration by injection. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The Second Schedule sets no quantity against this entry, so nothing is deemed and the whole question is conduct under section 18(1) or possession under section 6. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part I narcotic drug in ordinary prescribing use, reached lawfully only through the section 12 regulations and a Barbados registered prescriber.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The clean parenthetical identity and the neighbouring morphinone entry were read in Part I; the headword itself is damaged in the scan and was not reconstructed. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part I of the First Schedule at the entry whose parenthetical identity reads «(14-hydroxydihydrocodeinone)», the headword itself being damaged in the scan, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is a row where its International Non-Proprietary Name column reads «phencyclidine», and its other non proprietary or trivial names column reads «PCP», and its chemical name column reads «1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)piperidine». The arylcyclohexylamines are enumerated as a small family of named rows. Part II separately carries «eticyclidine» against «pce», «rolicyclidine» against «php, pcpy» with the chemical name «1-(1-Phenylcyclohexyl)pyrrolidine», and «tenocyclidine» against «tcp», so four members of one structural family each have a row and nothing in the Part reaches a fifth. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. None of the four arylcyclohexylamine rows carries a figure in column 2 of the Second Schedule. The compound is also commonly encountered applied to plant material, and that material is not itself a scheduled item, so the analytical question again precedes the quantity question. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance with no human therapeutic use recognised in the Act.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The four arylcyclohexylamine rows were read together in Part II, which is what makes the closed family point checkable. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)piperidine», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Peyote

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control», but only through its active constituent and only once that constituent is identified. That placement is made under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition. The cactus is not named anywhere in the First Schedule. Its active phenethylamine is, in the trivial name column of Part II against the chemical name «3,4,5-trimethoxy-phenethylamine», so the plant is reached through it. The contrast is deliberate and it is visible on the face of the Schedule. Part I names plant material directly where Parliament wanted it, at «coca leaf», at «poppy-straw and concentrate OF poppy-straw» and at the cannabis entry. No botanical name appears in Part II at all, so a Part II placement is a placement of a molecule. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. There is nothing for column 2 of the Second Schedule to measure, because the cactus is not a controlled drug and the constituent has no figure set against it. A prosecution therefore rests on proving the constituent and then on the section 18(1) conduct limbs. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The constituent is a Part II psychotropic substance with no therapeutic use recognised in the Act, and no religious or ceremonial exception appears anywhere in the Act as read.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The absence of any botanical name in Part II was confirmed by reading Part II end to end, and the three plant material entries in Part I were read for the contrast. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «3,4,5-trimethoxy-phenethylamine», the cactus itself being named nowhere in the Schedule, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Phenibut

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The phenyl substituted butyric acid amine has no row. Part II places its sedative and anxiolytic medicines by name and the nearest thing to this compound's skeleton in the Schedule is «meprobamate» against «2-methyl-2-propyl-1,3-propanediol dicarbamate», a different compound placed in its own right. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing attaches. It is sold as a powder in bulk, and a bulk powder of an unscheduled substance can still bring section 20(3) into play if it is offered as something else. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Section 12 does not reach it. It is a prescription medicine in a small number of countries and an unregulated supplement in many others, so a traveller may hold it with paperwork that looks clinical and has no standing under this Act either way. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every sedative and anxiolytic row in Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every sedative and anxiolytic row in Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Pink cocaine is a street label for a powder of no fixed composition, and a label is not a schedule entry. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the name resolves to a constituent question before it resolves to a legal one. The question resolves only after analysis, and the Act gives that step teeth: section 39(3) provides that once the prosecution proves the substance was the controlled drug alleged, the accused «shall not be acquitted... by reason» of not knowing what it was, subject to the proviso that follows. Three outcomes are live and they carry different penalties. A powder that proves to be the Part II methylenedioxy entry is a controlled drug with no quantity set against it. A powder that proves to contain the Part I coca alkaloid is a controlled drug that brings a one gramme Second Schedule threshold with it and therefore the deeming provision in section 6(4). A powder that proves to be neither, and the arylcyclohexylamine most often found in these mixtures has no row anywhere in the Schedule, may still be caught by section 20, which punishes supplying a substance «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug» with the same figures as the trafficking rows carry summarily. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Which Fourth Schedule row applies cannot be stated before the constituent is known, and the spread between the rows is the whole point. Simple possession of a controlled drug draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily. Trafficking draws imprisonment for life on indictment. A substance that is not a controlled drug at all draws nothing under this Act unless section 20 is engaged by holding it out as one. The spread here is the widest of the three label rows in this country, because one of the constituents this powder commonly contains carries a one gramme figure in column 2 of the Second Schedule and the others carry no figure at all. So the same powder can be inside a deeming provision or outside every threshold depending only on what an analyst reports. Section 39 then governs what the person has to have known. It applies to the possession, supply, importation and school radius offences and makes it a defence to prove that the accused «neither knew of nor suspected nor had reason to suspect the existence of some fact alleged by the prosecution», with subsection (3) narrowing that where the identity of the drug is what is in issue. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. No prescribing question arises for an unidentified street powder, and the section 12(3) practitioner carve out cannot operate on something that has not been identified.
Documentation: No documentation answers this one, because the question the Act asks is what the material is and not what it is called. Anything that fixes composition is worth more here than anything that fixes provenance. If a prescribed medicine is involved at all, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription, and expect the constituent rather than the label to decide the outcome. The coca alkaloid entry and its one gramme Second Schedule row were read in Part I, the methylenedioxy and arylcyclohexylamine rows in Part II, and sections 20 and 39 in the body of the Act. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part I of the First Schedule at the coca alkaloid entry and Part II at the methylenedioxy and arylcyclohexylamine rows, read together as the constituents this label resolves to, with sections 20 and 39, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Poppers

Legal status: Not scheduled in Barbados: no alkyl nitrite of any kind has an entry in Parts I to III. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the name resolves to a constituent question before it resolves to a legal one. The word is a commercial label covering several different alkyl nitrites. The label therefore resolves to a constituent question with, on the reading taken here, the same answer for every constituent. Section 8 punishes misusing «a controlled drug» and section 9 punishes possessing equipment intended for use in connection with the misuse of a controlled drug, so both offences depend on the substance being scheduled and neither reaches a substance that is not. The Act carries no inhalant or volatile substance offence at all. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Which Fourth Schedule row applies cannot be stated before the constituent is known, and the spread between the rows is the whole point. Simple possession of a controlled drug draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily. Trafficking draws imprisonment for life on indictment. A substance that is not a controlled drug at all draws nothing under this Act unless section 20 is engaged by holding it out as one. Unlike the other two label rows in this country, every constituent this label can resolve to gives the same answer, because no alkyl nitrite of any chain length appears anywhere in the Schedule. So the identification step, which usually decides these cells, does not change the outcome here. Section 39 then governs what the person has to have known. It applies to the possession, supply, importation and school radius offences and makes it a defence to prove that the accused «neither knew of nor suspected nor had reason to suspect the existence of some fact alleged by the prosecution», with subsection (3) narrowing that where the identity of the drug is what is in issue. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A nitrite prescribed for a cardiac indication would be a medicines question rather than a controlled drug question, and nothing in this Act as read regulates it.
Documentation: No documentation answers this one, because the question the Act asks is what the material is and not what it is called. Anything that fixes composition is worth more here than anything that fixes provenance. If a prescribed medicine is involved at all, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription, and expect the constituent rather than the label to decide the outcome. Parts I, II and III were read end to end for a nitrite ester and none appears, and sections 8 and 9 were read for a conduct route that does not depend on a schedule entry, which neither of them is. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule read end to end for a nitrite ester, of which there is none, together with sections 8 and 9, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. Neither this compound nor its close structural relative in the same therapeutic class has a row. The Part II rows nearest in use are the named hypnotics and sedatives, and the Act's only route to adding a medicine is a section 3(2) order made after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee and approved by affirmative resolution. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing in the Fourth Schedule attaches. It is dispensed in capsules and is diverted in several countries, so a seizure of it alongside placed medicines is the realistic way it appears in a case here. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. It is a prescription medicine in ordinary use and it is a controlled drug in several other jurisdictions, but not under this Act as read, so section 12 does not govern it. Confirm the import position under Barbados medicines law, which this cell did not read. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every sedative and anticonvulsant row in Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every sedative and anticonvulsant row in Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is a row where its International Non-Proprietary Name column reads «psilocybine», and its chemical name column reads «3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indol-4-yl dihydrogen phosphate». Both the phosphate ester and its dephosphorylated form are placed. A row above carries the trivial names «psilocine,psilotsin» against the chemical name «3-(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indol-4-ol», so the prodrug and the active compound are separate entries and the Part II paragraph limbs are not needed to connect them. No fungus is named. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Neither the phosphate ester row nor the 4-hydroxy row carries a figure in column 2 of the Second Schedule, and dried fungal material is not itself a scheduled item, so quantity enters the case only as evidence of intention under section 6(3). Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance with no therapeutic use recognised in the Act as read, so no prescription route exists.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The phosphate row and the indol-4-ol row above it were read together in Part II. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indol-4-yl dihydrogen phosphate», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Quetiapine

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The dibenzothiazepine ring system appears in no chemical name in Parts I to III. Part II does contain one thieno fused diazepine row, «clotiazepam», which shows the Part is not blind to sulphur containing fused rings, and this compound is still not among them. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing attaches. It is dispensed as a plain tablet and has a diversion market in custodial settings, which is where a seizure containing it is most likely to arise. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. It is a prescription antipsychotic in ordinary use and it is not a controlled drug under this Act, so section 12 does not apply. Carry it as an ordinary prescription medicine and confirm any import formality with Barbados medicines law rather than with this Act. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every fused ring chemical name in Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every fused ring chemical name in Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Salvia divinorum

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. Neither the plant nor its diterpene is named. No terpenoid of any kind appears in Parts I to III, whose chemical name column is made up of alkaloids, phenethylamines, tryptamines, diazepines, barbituric acids and bulk chemicals, so this compound sits outside every structural family the Schedule addresses. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. No offence attaches to leaf, extract or the isolated diterpene. Nothing in the Schedule addresses the structural family at all, so there is no adjacent placed compound and no analytical route in. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Section 12 does not reach the plant or its active diterpene, and neither has a prescription form. The plant is sold as an ornamental and as a dried leaf, and nothing in this Act addresses either. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every chemical name in Parts I to III for a terpenoid skeleton, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every chemical name in Parts I to III for a terpenoid skeleton, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. No tropane alkaloid of any kind appears in Parts I to III. The only tropane relative the Schedule addresses is the coca series, and it addresses it through «coca leaf», the cocaine entry and the ecgonine limb, none of which reaches this alkaloid. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing attaches to it as a substance on this reading, and the correction to the dossier matters here because a person told it was placed would expect a Fourth Schedule exposure that does not exist. Where it is used to facilitate another offence, that offence is charged under the general criminal law and not under this Act. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. This one carries a real risk of being got wrong in the opposite direction. The alkaloid is a prescription and over the counter medicine for motion sickness, commonly carried as a skin patch, and the dossier this cell was built against recorded it as a scheduled entry. On the Schedule as read it is not one, so section 12 does not govern it, and a patch is an ordinary medicines question under law that was not read for this cell. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every alkaloid entry in Part I and every row of Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every alkaloid entry in Part I and every row of Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Not controlled by any class clause in Barbados, and the answer turns on the constituent. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the name resolves to a constituent question before it resolves to a legal one. The phrase names an open chemical class rather than one molecule, and the First Schedule schedules molecules. The only cannabinoid rows in Part II are the closed isomer list under «THC, Tetrahydrocannabinol», which reaches «the following isomers and their stereochemical variants» and no more, and «parahexyl» against «3-hexyl-7,8,9,10-tetrahydro-6,6,9-trimethyl-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pyran-1-ol». Part V of the First Schedule defines «cannabinol derivatives» as «tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannobinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives», which is the nearest thing in the Act to a class clause. The expression is defined and then never used in Part I, Part II or Part III, so it controls nothing on the text as read. That is a finding about this Schedule. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Which Fourth Schedule row applies cannot be stated before the constituent is known, and the spread between the rows is the whole point. Simple possession of a controlled drug draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily. Trafficking draws imprisonment for life on indictment. A substance that is not a controlled drug at all draws nothing under this Act unless section 20 is engaged by holding it out as one. The closed wording of the isomer row is what fixes the outcome. A constituent that is one of the seven named isomers or a stereochemical variant brings a one gramme figure in column 2 of the Second Schedule with it, and a constituent outside that list brings nothing, with no intermediate position and no class clause to bridge the two. Section 39 then governs what the person has to have known. It applies to the possession, supply, importation and school radius offences and makes it a defence to prove that the accused «neither knew of nor suspected nor had reason to suspect the existence of some fact alleged by the prosecution», with subsection (3) narrowing that where the identity of the drug is what is in issue. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. No prescribing question arises for an unidentified class, and the section 12(3) carve out cannot operate until a constituent is identified.
Documentation: No documentation answers this one, because the question the Act asks is what the material is and not what it is called. Anything that fixes composition is worth more here than anything that fixes provenance. If a prescribed medicine is involved at all, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription, and expect the constituent rather than the label to decide the outcome. The seven named isomers and the hexyl side chain row were read in Part II, and Part V's definition of the derivative expression was read and then searched for across Parts I to III, where it is never used. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the closed isomer list and the hexyl side chain row, and Part V at the definition of «cannabinol derivatives» which no operative list invokes, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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THC-P

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The closed isomer list in Part II names seven isomers and every one of them carries a «3-pentyl» side chain. This compound carries a longer chain, so it is neither one of the seven nor a stereochemical variant of one, and the row's own wording stops there. The Schedule does place one differently chained relative, «parahexyl», which shows a side chain change needs its own row. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. No offence attaches to it as a substance. It is sold in the same vapes and edibles as the placed isomers, and the placed isomers carry a one gramme figure in column 2 of the Second Schedule, so a mixed product can put a person inside a threshold on the strength of its other contents. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. Section 12 does not reach it on this reading. It is a consumer cannabinoid product rather than a dispensed medicine, and it is routinely sold in the same form and packaging as the isomers that are placed, which is the whole of the practical difficulty. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading the seven named isomers and the hexyl side chain row in Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read the seven named isomers and the hexyl side chain row in Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Tobacco

Legal status: Not a controlled drug under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act in Barbados, and other Barbados legislation on tobacco was not read. Under that Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the plant is not named anywhere in the First Schedule. That absence is meaningful rather than accidental, because Part I does name plant material where Parliament chose to: «coca leaf», «poppy-straw and concentrate OF poppy-straw» and the cannabis entry are all botanical, and this plant is in none of them. Tobacco excise, retail and public place restrictions in Barbados sit in other legislation that was not read. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. No offence under this Act attaches to it, because every offence in Parts II to IV is framed against «a controlled drug» and section 3 makes that a schedule question. The section 8 misuse offence, the section 9 equipment offence and the section 18 trafficking offence all fail at the same first step. Part I's botanical list runs to three entries and each of them carries real consequences, including a cultivation offence under section 11(2) punished by a fine of $500,000 or 20 years on indictment. This plant is in none of them and no cultivation offence under this Act reaches it. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. It is not a controlled drug and section 12 has nothing to say about it. Any restriction on importing it as a traveller comes from customs and excise law that was not read for this cell.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The three botanical entries in Part I were read against this plant and none matches, and Part II was read end to end for a botanical name and carries none at all. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule read end to end, against the three botanical entries in Part I which are the Schedule's whole list of controlled plant material, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Tramadol

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. Part I is the longest list in the Schedule and it names well over a hundred opioid compounds individually, from the acetorphine entry through to «trimeperidine». This compound is not among them, and its cyclohexanol skeleton appears in no chemical name in the Part. The paragraph 2 to 6 limbs extend the named entries and do not add new ones. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing in the Fourth Schedule attaches to it. It is dispensed as a plain tablet or capsule and is widely diverted, so the realistic way it appears in a Barbados case is inside a seizure that also contains a placed Part I opioid. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. It is a prescription analgesic in very wide use and it is a controlled drug in many other jurisdictions, so its absence from the longest list in this Schedule is worth stating expressly. Section 12 does not govern it under this Act. Carry it as an ordinary prescription medicine and confirm the import position under Barbados medicines law, which this cell did not read. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every entry in Part I and all six of its paragraphs, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every entry in Part I and all six of its paragraphs, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Placed in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control». Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is a row where its International Non-Proprietary Name column reads «alprazolam», and its chemical name column reads «8-chloro-1-methyl-6-phenyl-4H-s-triazolo[4,3-α][1,4]benzodiazepine». The triazolo ring fusion is what distinguishes the alprazolam row from most of the benzodiazepine rows around it, and Part II places the two other triazolo members separately, «estazolam» against «8-chloro-6-phenyl-4H-s-triazolo[4,3-α][1,4]benzodiazepine» and «triazolam» against its dichlorinated analogue. Three fused triazolo rows, each placed in its own right. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. No diazepine row anywhere in Part II carries a figure in column 2 of the Second Schedule, and there are around forty of them. So for this whole family the deeming provision in section 6(4) is dead letter and a tablet count is evidence of intention under section 6(3) and nothing more. Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance in ordinary prescribing use, so the section 12(3) practitioner carve out is the route and it turns on a Barbados registration.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. All three triazolo fused rows were read together in Part II. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «8-chloro-1-methyl-6-phenyl-4H-s-triazolo[4,3-α][1,4]benzodiazepine», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Xylazine

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The thiazine ring system appears in no chemical name in Parts I to III. The Act does contemplate veterinary practice, defining «veterinary practitioner» by reference to the Register of Veterinary Surgeons under the Veterinary Surgeons Act, Cap. 374, but that definition operates on controlled drugs and no entry makes this one. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. No offence attaches to it as a substance. It is increasingly found as an adulterant in placed opioids, and in that situation the charge rests on the placed opioid and the adulterant changes nothing about the Schedule. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. It is a veterinary sedative rather than a human medicine, and it is not a controlled drug under this Act, so section 12 does not reach it although the Act does define a veterinary practitioner for the purposes of the controlled drug regime. Veterinary medicines law was not read for this cell. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every chemical name in Parts I to III and the section 2 definitions, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every chemical name in Parts I to III and the section 2 definitions, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Not a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read on 20 September 2026 in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it. The imidazopyridine ring system has no row. Part II does place one imidazo fused diazepine, «loprazolam», and it places the named non benzodiazepine hypnotics «methyprylon», «ethchlorvynol», «ethinamate» and «glutethimide», so the Part reaches hypnotics outside the benzodiazepine class where Parliament named them. This one it did not name. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. Nothing attaches. It is dispensed as a plain tablet and is diverted, so its realistic appearance in a case is inside a seizure of mixed medication where something else is placed. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. It is a prescription hypnotic in very wide use and it is a controlled drug in many other jurisdictions. Under this Act it is not one, so section 12 does not govern it, and a visitor holding a genuine prescription should confirm the import position under Barbados medicines law rather than relying on this cell. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Documentation: There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every hypnotic row in Part II, benzodiazepine and otherwise, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.

Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every hypnotic row in Part II, benzodiazepine and otherwise, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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