Legal status in Belize

Per-substance legal status for Belize, 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.

45 confirmed substances43 not individually verifiedLast updated October 9, 2026

Confirmed legal status

4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: 4-AcO-DMT is a Class A controlled drug in Belize, reached through the ester clause rather than by name. Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, prints «Psilocin.», and Part I paragraph 3 extends the Part to «Any ester or ether of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2, not being a substance for the time being specified in Part II.» PubChem names psilocin 3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]-1H-indol-4-ol and 4-AcO-DMT [3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]-1H-indol-4-yl] acetate, which is the acetic acid ester of the hydroxyl on psilocin, and it is not specified in Part II. Schedule II of the Act is headed «Controlled Drugs» and cites section 4, and section 4(1) provides that the expression controlled drugs means any substance or product for the time being specified in Part I, II or III of Schedule II, and that Class A, Class B and Class C drugs are those specified respectively in Parts I, II and III. Neither 4-AcO-DMT nor acetoxy returns anything in the Act or the Regulations, so this is the clause applied to a structure and not a printed name. Schedule I paragraph 1(b) of the Regulations, a generic clause for compounds derived from tryptamine or a ring hydroxy tryptamine by alkyl substitution at the side chain nitrogen and no other substitution, has no counterpart in Part I of the Act and is not the route relied on here. The Act read is Chapter 103 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, whose Schedule II carries the footnote «This Schedule was amended by Statutory Instrument No. 5 of 2014 and Statutory Instrument No 132 of 2020.» The two later amending Acts, No. 25 of 2023 and No. 26 of 2024, were read too: the first amends section 48(4) and the second repeals section 28B, and neither touches section 4, section 7, section 18, section 28 or any Schedule.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. This is a Class A drug, and section 28 gives Schedule III effect for every offence other than drug trafficking. Schedule III punishes possession under section 7(2) of a Class A drug on summary conviction with «5 years or $100,000, or both.» Section 28(2) reads a period in that table as the maximum term and a sum as the maximum fine, and Schedule III prints a summary column only for this offence. Possession with intent to supply is a drug trafficking offence, and section 18(1) punishes drug trafficking and possession for the purpose of drug trafficking without regard to class. On summary conviction the person shall be imprisoned for not less than three years and up to ten years and, in addition, shall be ordered to pay a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars and up to one hundred thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of that value, whichever is greater. On conviction on indictment it is not less than five years and up to fourteen years and, in addition, a fine of not less than fifty thousand dollars and up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value. The proviso that lets a court refrain from the mandatory custodial term for special reasons recorded in writing is written for quantities of heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, and the section 7(4) presumption quantities name the same five drugs, so neither prints a figure for this substance. The Senior Courts' Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, tells courts that in drug trafficking the mandatory minimum custodial sentence and fine should both be imposed unless the proviso in that section applies or in the circumstances of the particular case it is grossly disproportionate. Section 18(2) deems a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises, any other place of education or training, a centre for the rehabilitation of drug addicts, or the immediate vicinity of any of them, to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 28(6) requires a suspended sentence and referral to a drug rehabilitation centre for a first time offender proved to be addicted, in any case other than drug trafficking. These figures are the Revised Edition 2020 text. The 1990 text as UNODC holds it, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, numbered drug trafficking as section 17, punishment as section 27 and the offence of smoking or otherwise using prepared opium, cocaine, heroin or cannabis as section 11, which the Revised Edition prints as section 12, and it printed different trafficking figures, a fine or imprisonment or both, which the Revised Edition, citing Acts 26 of 1992 and 18 of 1998 in the margin of section 18, has replaced with a mandatory term and a fine together.
If prescribed / medical: The Misuse of Drugs Regulations sort controlled drugs into five schedules for their own purposes, and regulation 3 says so in terms: «Schedules I to V shall have effect for the purpose of specifying the controlled drugs to which certain provisions of these Regulations apply.» Schedule I of the Regulations is headed «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» Regulation 5 makes a licence of the Minister what renders production, supply or possession lawful. Regulation 4 lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition only for Schedules IV and V, and the section 7(1) possession prohibition only for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product, a Schedule V drug and poppy straw, so there is no ordinary dispensed medicine route for a Schedule I drug and nothing a traveller carries makes one. Psilocin is printed in Schedule I paragraph 1(a) of the Regulations, and Schedule I paragraph 3 of the Regulations carries its own clause for «Any ester or ether of a substance specified in paragraph 1 or 2.», so the Regulations place this ester with psilocin in Schedule I.
Documentation: Nothing a traveller can carry makes possession lawful, because the Regulations give a Schedule I drug no prescription route. Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and section 5(2) of the Act lifts the import prohibition only for a drug excepted by regulations made under section 9 or imported under a licence issued by the Minister. For this row the facts to carry are the printed entry «Psilocin.» in Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 of the Act and the ester clause in paragraph 3. Read on 3 October 2026.

Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, Schedule II Part I paragraphs 1 and 3, the entry «Psilocin.», in the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, with sections 4, 7, 18 and 28 and Schedule III of the same volume · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule I paragraphs 1(a) and 3, in the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020 · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2020, S.I. 132 of 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6a67dbac595cd_SI_No._132_of_2020_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment_of_Second_Schedule__Order__2020.pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 25 of 2023, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/64baeb84e3181_Act_No._25_of_2023_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment__Act__2023..pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 26 of 2024, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67fe7a0e1645c_Act_No._26_of_2024_Misuse_of_Drugs_Amendment_Act-2024.pdf · Senior Courts of Belize, Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67991ef1f0520_Practice_Direction_No._7_of_2025_Sentencing_Guidelines_for__Drug_Offences.pdf · for comparison only, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · PubChem, 4-AcO-DMT CID 15429212, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/15429212 · PubChem, psilocin CID 4980, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/4980 · read as at 3 October 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: 5-MeO-DMT is a Class A controlled drug in Belize, reached through the ether clause rather than by name. Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, prints «Bufotenine.» in its left column, and Part I paragraph 3 extends the Part to «Any ester or ether of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2, not being a substance for the time being specified in Part II.» PubChem names bufotenine 3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]-1H-indol-5-ol and 5-MeO-DMT 2-(5-methoxy-1H-indol-3-yl)-N,N-dimethylethanamine: the same molecule with the hydroxyl at ring position five carrying a methyl group, which is the methyl ether of bufotenine, and it is not specified in Part II. Schedule II of the Act is headed «Controlled Drugs» and cites section 4, and section 4(1) provides that the expression controlled drugs means any substance or product for the time being specified in Part I, II or III of Schedule II, and that Class A, Class B and Class C drugs are those specified respectively in Parts I, II and III. The Act prints «N,N-Diethyltryptamine.», carries «N,N-Dimethyltryptamine.» in its text layer, and has no general tryptamine clause, so the ether route is the only one. 5-MeO-DMT itself returns nothing in the Act or the Regulations. Schedule I paragraph 1(b) of the Regulations, a generic clause for compounds derived from tryptamine or a ring hydroxy tryptamine by alkyl substitution at the side chain nitrogen and no other substitution, has no counterpart in Part I of the Act and is not the route relied on here. The Act read is Chapter 103 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, whose Schedule II carries the footnote «This Schedule was amended by Statutory Instrument No. 5 of 2014 and Statutory Instrument No 132 of 2020.» The two later amending Acts, No. 25 of 2023 and No. 26 of 2024, were read too: the first amends section 48(4) and the second repeals section 28B, and neither touches section 4, section 7, section 18, section 28 or any Schedule.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. This is a Class A drug, and section 28 gives Schedule III effect for every offence other than drug trafficking. Schedule III punishes possession under section 7(2) of a Class A drug on summary conviction with «5 years or $100,000, or both.» Section 28(2) reads a period in that table as the maximum term and a sum as the maximum fine, and Schedule III prints a summary column only for this offence. Possession with intent to supply is a drug trafficking offence, and section 18(1) punishes drug trafficking and possession for the purpose of drug trafficking without regard to class. On summary conviction the person shall be imprisoned for not less than three years and up to ten years and, in addition, shall be ordered to pay a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars and up to one hundred thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of that value, whichever is greater. On conviction on indictment it is not less than five years and up to fourteen years and, in addition, a fine of not less than fifty thousand dollars and up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value. The proviso that lets a court refrain from the mandatory custodial term for special reasons recorded in writing is written for quantities of heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, and the section 7(4) presumption quantities name the same five drugs, so neither prints a figure for this substance. The Senior Courts' Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, tells courts that in drug trafficking the mandatory minimum custodial sentence and fine should both be imposed unless the proviso in that section applies or in the circumstances of the particular case it is grossly disproportionate. Section 18(2) deems a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises, any other place of education or training, a centre for the rehabilitation of drug addicts, or the immediate vicinity of any of them, to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 28(6) requires a suspended sentence and referral to a drug rehabilitation centre for a first time offender proved to be addicted, in any case other than drug trafficking. These figures are the Revised Edition 2020 text. The 1990 text as UNODC holds it, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, numbered drug trafficking as section 17, punishment as section 27 and the offence of smoking or otherwise using prepared opium, cocaine, heroin or cannabis as section 11, which the Revised Edition prints as section 12, and it printed different trafficking figures, a fine or imprisonment or both, which the Revised Edition, citing Acts 26 of 1992 and 18 of 1998 in the margin of section 18, has replaced with a mandatory term and a fine together.
If prescribed / medical: The Misuse of Drugs Regulations sort controlled drugs into five schedules for their own purposes, and regulation 3 says so in terms: «Schedules I to V shall have effect for the purpose of specifying the controlled drugs to which certain provisions of these Regulations apply.» Schedule I of the Regulations is headed «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» Regulation 5 makes a licence of the Minister what renders production, supply or possession lawful. Regulation 4 lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition only for Schedules IV and V, and the section 7(1) possession prohibition only for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product, a Schedule V drug and poppy straw, so there is no ordinary dispensed medicine route for a Schedule I drug and nothing a traveller carries makes one. Bufotenine is printed in Schedule I paragraph 1(a) of the Regulations, and Schedule I paragraph 3 of the Regulations carries its own clause for «Any ester or ether of a substance specified in paragraph 1 or 2.», so the Regulations place this ether with bufotenine in Schedule I.
Documentation: Nothing a traveller can carry makes possession lawful, because the Regulations give a Schedule I drug no prescription route. Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and section 5(2) of the Act lifts the import prohibition only for a drug excepted by regulations made under section 9 or imported under a licence issued by the Minister. For this row the facts to carry are the printed entry «Bufotenine.» in Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 of the Act and the ether clause in paragraph 3. Toad secretions sold as a source of this compound are not printed in either instrument, and whether they are a «preparation or other product containing» it under Part I paragraph 5 is the same open question this batch leaves for mushrooms. Read on 3 October 2026.

Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, Schedule II Part I paragraphs 1 and 3, the entry «Bufotenine.», in the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, with sections 4, 7, 18 and 28 and Schedule III of the same volume · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule I paragraphs 1(a) and 3, in the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020 · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2020, S.I. 132 of 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6a67dbac595cd_SI_No._132_of_2020_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment_of_Second_Schedule__Order__2020.pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 25 of 2023, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/64baeb84e3181_Act_No._25_of_2023_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment__Act__2023..pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 26 of 2024, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67fe7a0e1645c_Act_No._26_of_2024_Misuse_of_Drugs_Amendment_Act-2024.pdf · Senior Courts of Belize, Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67991ef1f0520_Practice_Direction_No._7_of_2025_Sentencing_Guidelines_for__Drug_Offences.pdf · for comparison only, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · PubChem, 5-MeO-DMT CID 1832, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/1832 · PubChem, bufotenine CID 10257, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/10257 · read as at 3 October 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Amphetamine is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 6, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. The printed entry is the bare word Amphetamine in the left column of paragraph 6. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Adderall is a brand name and no brand name appears anywhere in the volume. It does not need to. The product is a mixture of amphetamine salts, Amphetamine is a printed entry in paragraph 6, and paragraph 8 extends paragraph 6 to any salt of a substance specified in it, so the product is reached through a printed entry and the salt paragraph without any argument about structure. Paragraph 7, which extends paragraph 6 to any stereoisomeric form, covers the dextro isomer as well, but nothing in this row rests on that paragraph. No class is given here. Class follows from Part I, Part II or Part III of the Act's Second Schedule under section 4, and the subsidiary volume read for this row prints no part of that schedule and uses the words Class A, Class B and Class C nowhere at all. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule II is the prescribing schedule for the strong medicines. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26, one more than Schedule I, and regulation 7 allows administration of a Schedule II drug, regulation 8 its production and supply and regulation 10 its possession, each on the conditions those regulations set. Regulation 15 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 16 what a supplier may do on one. None of that reaches a prescription written outside Belize, and regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule II from the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Amphetamine, at Schedule II paragraph 6. Adderall, dextroamphetamine and dexamfetamine returned nothing in either file; Amphetamine returned four occurrences in the subsidiary volume. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

Belize, Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule II paragraph 6, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · the Act's offence and penalty provisions were read in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text stops partway through section 28 and carries none of its own three schedules, so no class and no ordinary possession maximum is taken from it · read as at 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Alcohol

Legal status: Alcohol is legal for adults in Belize and is regulated as liquor under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Act, Chapter 150, not as a controlled drug. Section 2 of that Act defines «liquor» as «any wine, spirits, ale, porter, cider, perry, liqueurs, cordials and other spirituous or fermented liquor of an intoxicating nature». Section 44(1) provides that «No licence holder shall sell or deliver or allow any person to sell or deliver any description of liquor as defined in section 2 of this Act to any person under eighteen years», and section 44(3A) requires the licence holder or employee to «ascertain and be satisfied that the person is over the age of eighteen years» before selling. Alcohol, ethanol and liquor return nothing in Schedule II of the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, so section 4 of that Act does not reach it. The Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Act read is the Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020. The government portal's Acts listings for 2021 to 2026 carry no amendment to it, and the liquor statutory instruments listed for 2021 to 2026 are licensing board Orders and an amendment of regulation 5 of the licensing Regulations, none of which can amend section 44 of the Act.
Consequences if caught: Drinking is lawful for an adult; the Act's offences are about where and by whom. Section 44A(1) forbids any person to drink liquor on any public road, or in any drain, culvert, street, sidewalk or other public place other than one specified in section 65, and section 44A(2) allows it at a public dance, ball, celebration or entertainment if the liquor is in a plastic, paper or styrofoam receptacle and not in a bottle, glass or metal receptacle; section 44A(3) takes the driver of a motor vehicle out of that allowance. Section 44A(4) punishes a contravention on summary conviction with a fine of twenty five dollars for a first offence, fifty dollars for a second, and one hundred dollars with fifty hours of community service work for a third or later one. Section 44(2) forbids sending a person under eighteen to buy liquor, and section 44(5) makes the section 44 offences strict liability, so a seller cannot defend a sale to a person under eighteen by proving he did not know the age. Section 65A sets the general penalty for an offence under section 44 at a fine of five hundred dollars for a first offence, with three months' suspension for a licence holder, and one thousand dollars for a subsequent offence, with forfeiture of the licence. Drink driving and customs allowances for carrying alcohol into Belize are governed by other instruments, which were not read for this row. Because it is not a controlled drug, the possession offences in section 7(1), section 7(2) and section 7(3) of the Act, the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, and the drug trafficking penalties in section 18 do not reach it; the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, numbered those penalties section 17, punishment section 27 and the smoking offence, now section 12, section 11. Schedule III, which section 28 applies to every Act offence other than drug trafficking, attaches no punishment to it, and Regulation 4 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, which lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V and the section 7 possession prohibition for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product and a Schedule V drug, has nothing to lift. Like every answer drawn from Schedule II, this one would change if an Order made after 31 December 2020 and not listed on the portal had added it. The Act read is the Revised Edition 2020; the 1990 text runs from section 1 and stops inside section 28, and carries none of its Schedules.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription applies. Alcohol is sold under licence under the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Act, and the Misuse of Drugs Regulations and the Chemists and Druggists Act Poisons List do not name it.
Documentation: Carry identification if you may be asked your age: section 44(3C) makes it lawful for a licence holder or employee to demand an identity card before selling liquor or admitting a person to a nightclub, malt liquor or publican's special licence premises. For this row the fact to carry is the age of eighteen in section 44 of the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Act. Read on 3 October 2026.

Belize, Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Act, Chapter 150, sections 2, 44, 44A and 65A, in the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Orders S.I. 18 and 105 of 2021, 14 of 2022, 19 of 2023, 14 of 2024, 3 of 2025 and 1 of 2026, and Intoxicating Liquor Licensing (Amendment) Regulations S.I. 175 of 2022, listed at https://www.agm.gov.bz/laws/si · Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, Schedule II, Revised Edition 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/639762f72c5a8_Cap_103_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act.pdf · read as at 3 October 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Amphetamine is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 6, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the left column of paragraph 6 between Acetyldihydrocodeine and Codeine, with Methylamphetamine in the right column. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Paragraph 6 is a second list inside Schedule II and it does not take the same treatment as paragraph 1. Paragraph 7 extends paragraph 6 to any stereoisomeric form, paragraph 8 to any salt and paragraph 9 to any preparation, except a preparation specified in Schedule V. Two other amphetamines are elsewhere: N-Ethylamphetamine in Schedule IV and Benzphetamine in Schedule III. No class is given here. Class follows from Part I, Part II or Part III of the Act's Second Schedule under section 4, and the subsidiary volume read for this row prints no part of that schedule and uses the words Class A, Class B and Class C nowhere at all. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule II is the prescribing schedule for the strong medicines. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26, one more than Schedule I, and regulation 7 allows administration of a Schedule II drug, regulation 8 its production and supply and regulation 10 its possession, each on the conditions those regulations set. Regulation 15 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 16 what a supplier may do on one. None of that reaches a prescription written outside Belize, and regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule II from the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Amphetamine, at Schedule II paragraph 6. Amphetamine returned four occurrences in the subsidiary volume across Amphetamine, Methylamphetamine, Tenamphetamine and Ethylamphetamine, and none in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: Amyl nitrite is a listed poison in Belize and not a controlled drug. The Chemists and Druggists Act, Chapter 311, prints «Amyl nitrite» in its Schedule 1 Poisons List, between «Amino-alcohols, esterified with benzoic acid» and the antimony compounds, with nothing entered against it in the column of exemptions. Nitrite returns nothing in Schedule II of the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, or in the five schedules of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, both read as printed in the Revised Edition 2020 showing the laws as at 31 December 2020 with S.I. 132 of 2020 and the amending Acts No. 25 of 2023 and No. 26 of 2024, so section 4 of that Act does not make it a controlled drug. The Chemists and Druggists Act volume is the Revised Edition 2020, and its only later amendment found, Act No. 39 of 2021, replaces the title Director of Health Services with Director of Public Health and Wellness and nothing else. The other nitrites sold as poppers are a separate question: isobutyl and isopropyl nitrite are not printed in the Poisons List.
Consequences if caught: Because it is not a controlled drug, the possession offences in section 7(1), section 7(2) and section 7(3) of the Act, the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, and the drug trafficking penalties in section 18 do not reach it; the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, numbered those penalties section 17, punishment section 27 and the smoking offence, now section 12, section 11. Schedule III, which section 28 applies to every Act offence other than drug trafficking, attaches no punishment to it, and Regulation 4 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, which lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V and the section 7 possession prohibition for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product and a Schedule V drug, has nothing to lift. Like every answer drawn from Schedule II, this one would change if an Order made after 31 December 2020 and not listed on the portal had added it. The Act read is the Revised Edition 2020; the 1990 text runs from section 1 and stops inside section 28, and carries none of its Schedules. The Chemists and Druggists Act governs who may sell it. Section 2 of the Chemists and Druggists Act defines «poison» as «the articles named and described in the First Schedule» together with any article the Minister adds by Order. Section 22(1) forbids any person to sell, retail, dispense or compound drugs or poisons in a shop unless the shop is under the immediate personal control of a registered chemist and druggist and the sale is made by or under that person's direct charge. Section 23(1) forbids selling any poison to a person under twelve years of age except on the prescription of a registered medical practitioner, and section 23(3) sets a fine of up to two hundred and fifty dollars or imprisonment of up to three months, or both. Section 25(1) requires every container of a poison sold to be labelled with the name of the article, the word «poison» and the seller's name and address, and forbids selling a poison to a person unknown to the seller unless introduced by someone the seller knows; section 25(2) requires a signed entry in the poison book. Section 25(4) punishes a sale otherwise than in accordance with section 25 with a fine of up to fifty dollars for a first offence and two hundred dollars for a second or later one. Every one of those provisions is addressed to a seller. None of sections 22 to 29 of the Chemists and Druggists Act, read as at 31 December 2020 with Act No. 39 of 2021, makes possession by a buyer an offence.
If prescribed / medical: Section 23(1) of the Chemists and Druggists Act requires a prescription of a registered medical practitioner only for a sale to a person under twelve years of age. The fuller prescription requirement in section 23(2) names the sulphonamide group of drugs and not amyl nitrite. So for an adult buyer the Act requires a registered chemist and druggist's shop, a labelled container and a poison book entry, not a prescription.
Documentation: Carry it in its original labelled container. If it was prescribed, carry the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry «Amyl nitrite» in the Chemists and Druggists Act Poisons List. Read on 3 October 2026.

Belize, Chemists and Druggists Act, Chapter 311, Schedule 1 Poisons List, «Amyl nitrite», with sections 2, 22, 23 and 25, in the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · Chemists and Druggists (Amendment) Act No. 39 of 2021, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6397714576026_Act_No-39-of-2021-Chemists-and-Druggists-Amendment-Act-2021.pdf · Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, Schedule II and sections 4, 7 and 28, Revised Edition 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/639762f72c5a8_Cap_103_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act.pdf · Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedules I to V, Subsidiary Laws Revised Edition 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/63f5161530204_Cap_103_Misuse_of_Drugs_Regulations_1.pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2020, S.I. 132 of 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6a67dbac595cd_SI_No._132_of_2020_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment_of_Second_Schedule__Order__2020.pdf · read as at 3 October 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Barbiturates

Legal status: Any 5, 5 disubstituted barbituric acid is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule III paragraph 1(b), in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is the whole of paragraph 1(b), printed under the two column list in paragraph 1(a) that carries Methylphenobarbitone, Meprobamate, Methyprylone and Ethchlorvynol. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. This is the one class entry in the volume that is written as a structural formula rather than a name, and it is unambiguous: a 5,5 disubstituted barbituric acid is what a barbiturate is. Methylphenobarbitone is separately named in paragraph 1(a) of the same schedule. Paragraph 2 extends the schedule to stereoisomeric forms other than phenylpropanolamine, paragraph 3 to salts and paragraph 4 to preparations that are not Schedule V preparations. Section 4 of the Act sorts every controlled drug into Part I, Part II or Part III of the Second Schedule, which is Class A, Class B and Class C. That Second Schedule sits in the Substantive Laws volume of Chapter 103, which was not among the four instruments in the subsidiary volume read here, so no class is stated. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule III sits between the prescribing schedules and the exempted ones. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26, so the prescription form and supplier duties apply but the register duty in regulations 19 and 20 does not. Regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule III from the section 5(1) import and export prohibition or from the section 7(1) possession prohibition, so a lawful supply route inside Belize is not the same thing as a right to bring the drug in.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: any 5, 5 disubstituted barbituric acid, at Schedule III paragraph 1(b). Barbituric acid returned one occurrence in the subsidiary volume and Methylphenobarbitone one; no individual barbiturate other than that one is named. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

Belize, Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule III paragraph 1(b), in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · the Act's offence and penalty provisions were read in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text stops partway through section 28 and carries none of its own three schedules, so no class and no ordinary possession maximum is taken from it · read as at 22 September 2026 · Updated October 9, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Thirty three benzodiazepines are printed by name in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. The names run down two columns of the Schedule IV paragraph 1 list, interleaved with six entries that are not benzodiazepines at all: Fencamfamin, Fenproporex, Mefenorex, N-Ethylamphetamine, Propylthexedrine and Pyrovalorone. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS EXCEPTED FROM THE PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION AND, WHEN IN THE FORM OF A MEDICINAL PRODUCT, POSSESSION AND SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 22, 23, 25 AND 26». The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. For a traveller that schedule is the answer rather than a technicality. Regulation 4(2)(a) provides that section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product, and regulation 4(1) lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. This is a list of individual names and not a class entry. The list runs to thirty nine names in all and thirty three of them are benzodiazepines. There is no benzodiazepine family rule anywhere in the volume, so a benzodiazepine that is not on this list is not reached by it. Etizolam, which is a thienodiazepine, returns nothing in either file, and that is a separate row for that reason. The class is left open on purpose. The Act's own classification lives in its Second Schedule and the punishment table in its Third Schedule, and the volume read here is the subsidiary laws volume, whose contents page lists four instruments and none of them is the Act. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule IV is where regulation 4(2)(a) does its work, and it is the most useful rule in the whole volume for a traveller. Section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product. Regulation 4(1) separately disapplies the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. So a dispensed medicinal product containing a Schedule IV drug is outside both prohibitions on the face of the Regulations. Regulations 22, 23, 25 and 26 still apply, and the exemption is written about the medicinal product form and not about loose material.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Alprazolam, Bromazepam, Camazepam, Chlordiazepoxide, Clobazam, Clonazepam, Clorazepic acid, Clotiazepam, Cloxazolam, Delorazepam, Diazepam, Estazolam, Ethyl loflazepate, Fludiazepam, Flunitrazepam, Flurazepam, Halazepam, Haloxazolam, Ketazolam, Loprazolam, Lorazepam, Lormetazepam, Medazepam, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, Nordazepam, Oxazepam, Oxazolam, Pinazepam, Prazepam, Temazepam, Tetrazepam and Triazolam, at Schedule IV paragraph 1. The word benzodiazepine returns nothing in either file; the thirty three names above were read off the Schedule IV list in place. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

Belize, Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · the Act's offence and penalty provisions were read in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text stops partway through section 28 and carries none of its own three schedules, so no class and no ordinary possession maximum is taken from it · read as at 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cannabinol

Legal status: Cannabinol is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule I paragraph 1(a), in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It stands between Bufotenine and the separate entry for Cannabinol derivatives. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Cannabinol and Cannabinol derivatives are two entries, not one. The Act defines the second at section 2(1)(f) as the tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and the 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin. Cannabinol itself carries no definition anywhere in the volume and needs none, because it is named outright. No class is given here. Class follows from Part I, Part II or Part III of the Act's Second Schedule under section 4, and the subsidiary volume read for this row prints no part of that schedule and uses the words Class A, Class B and Class C nowhere at all. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule I is the heaviest of the five. Regulation 5 means a licence of the Minister is what makes production, supply or possession lawful, and the Schedule I heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 and 26, which are the documentation, prescription form, register, destruction and record keeping duties. Regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule I from anything: its exceptions run to Schedules IV and V and to poppy straw only. So there is no ordinary dispensed medicine route for a Schedule I drug in Belize and nothing a traveller carries makes one.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Cannabinol, at Schedule I paragraph 1(a). Cannabinol returned nine occurrences in the subsidiary volume and three in the 1990 Act text, and Cannabinol derivatives one in each. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

Belize, Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule I paragraph 1(a), in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · the Act's offence and penalty provisions were read in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text stops partway through section 28 and carries none of its own three schedules, so no class and no ordinary possession maximum is taken from it · read as at 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Cannabis and cannabis resin is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule I paragraph 1(a), in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It follows the Cannabinol derivatives entry and precedes the line that runs Cathinone and Cocoa leaf together. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. The Act defines cannabis at section 2(1)(e) to include any part of the plant of the genus cannabis, any resin obtained from that plant, and any product of which such resin forms a base. Cannabis is the one substance in this set whose treatment the subsidiary volume carries in full: the Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Violation Tickets) Regulations, S.I. 28 of 2019, and the Misuse of Drugs (Industrial Hemp) Regulations, S.I. 54 of 2019 as amended by S.I. 75 of 2020, are both consolidated in it. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 7(4)(e) sets sixty grammes of cannabis or cannabis resin as the presumption quantity, above which possession is deemed to be for the purpose of supply unless the contrary is proved. That figure was read in the 1990 text and sits next to an amendment this volume shows the effects of but does not reproduce, so it is the one presumption quantity here whose currency is least settled. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. Cannabis is also the one substance in this batch with a ticketing regime printed in the same volume. The Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Violation Tickets) Regulations, S.I. 28 of 2019, in force from 16 March 2019, let an authorised officer issue a violation ticket for three offences, and all three of them are about place or use rather than about ordinary possession: possession of not more than 10 grammes on the premises of an educational institution, smoking or otherwise using not more than 10 grammes outside the two places section 12 allows, which are another person's residence with that person's consent and private guest sleeping accommodation with the proprietor's consent, and possession of not more than 10 grammes in or near school premises or a rehabilitation centre. Regulation 6 sets the fine at one hundred dollars, regulation 7 gives fifteen calendar days to pay and adds ten dollars for every day it is late, and a violator who has neither paid within thirty days nor asked for a hearing is summoned to court. Ordinary possession of a small amount at home is not on that ticket schedule, and the reason it is not cannot be read off this volume. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule I is the heaviest of the five. Regulation 5 means a licence of the Minister is what makes production, supply or possession lawful, and the Schedule I heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 and 26, which are the documentation, prescription form, register, destruction and record keeping duties. Regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule I from anything: its exceptions run to Schedules IV and V and to poppy straw only. So there is no ordinary dispensed medicine route for a Schedule I drug in Belize and nothing a traveller carries makes one. The Misuse of Drugs (Industrial Hemp) Regulations, S.I. 54 of 2019 as amended by S.I. 75 of 2020, define industrial hemp by reference to a maximum tetrahydrocannabinol concentration, and regulation 3 of those Regulations sets that maximum at 0.3 per cent.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Cannabis and cannabis resin, at Schedule I paragraph 1(a). Cannabis returned twenty six occurrences in the subsidiary volume and sixteen in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Cathinone

Legal status: Cathinone is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule I paragraph 1(a), in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. The volume prints it on one line with a second entry, as Cathinone Cocoa leaf, with the line break between the two entries lost. That is how the page is set, checked against the rendered page image and not only against the text layer. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. A second cathinone sits lower down. Cathine is printed in Schedule III paragraph 1(a), which carries a lighter set of regulation duties than Schedule I. Two related alkaloids, two different schedules, and the row for each is different. No class is given here. Class follows from Part I, Part II or Part III of the Act's Second Schedule under section 4, and the subsidiary volume read for this row prints no part of that schedule and uses the words Class A, Class B and Class C nowhere at all. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule I is the heaviest of the five. Regulation 5 means a licence of the Minister is what makes production, supply or possession lawful, and the Schedule I heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 and 26, which are the documentation, prescription form, register, destruction and record keeping duties. Regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule I from anything: its exceptions run to Schedules IV and V and to poppy straw only. So there is no ordinary dispensed medicine route for a Schedule I drug in Belize and nothing a traveller carries makes one.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Cathinone, at Schedule I paragraph 1(a). Cathinone returned one occurrence and Cathine one, both in the subsidiary volume and neither in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Clonazepam is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the left column between Clobazam and Clorazepic acid, opposite Mefenorex. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS EXCEPTED FROM THE PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION AND, WHEN IN THE FORM OF A MEDICINAL PRODUCT, POSSESSION AND SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 22, 23, 25 AND 26». The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. For a traveller that schedule is the answer rather than a technicality. Regulation 4(2)(a) provides that section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product, and regulation 4(1) lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. Three neighbours matter for a traveller carrying more than one benzodiazepine: Clobazam above it, Clorazepic acid below it and Clotiazepam after that are all separate entries in the same schedule, so a pack containing any of them takes the same treatment as this one. The exemption is not a class rule and reaches only the names actually on the list. The class is left open on purpose. The Act's own classification lives in its Second Schedule and the punishment table in its Third Schedule, and the volume read here is the subsidiary laws volume, whose contents page lists four instruments and none of them is the Act. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule IV is where regulation 4(2)(a) does its work, and it is the most useful rule in the whole volume for a traveller. Section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product. Regulation 4(1) separately disapplies the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. So a dispensed medicinal product containing a Schedule IV drug is outside both prohibitions on the face of the Regulations. Regulations 22, 23, 25 and 26 still apply, and the exemption is written about the medicinal product form and not about loose material.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Clonazepam, at Schedule IV paragraph 1. Clonazepam returned one occurrence in the subsidiary volume and none in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Cocaine

Legal status: Cocaine is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the left column between Clonitazene and Codoxime, with the Ecgonine entry running down the right column beside it. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Schedule V paragraph 2 then excepts any preparation of cocaine containing not more than 0.1 per cent of cocaine calculated as cocaine base, compounded so that the cocaine cannot be recovered by readily applicable means or in a yield that would be a risk to health. Two further cocaine related lines are in Schedule II paragraph 1: Ecgonine, and any derivative of ecgonine convertible to ecgonine or to cocaine. Note the spelling of the coca leaf entry in Schedule I, which this volume prints as Cocoa leaf while the Act defines coca leaf at section 2(1)(g). The class is left open on purpose. The Act's own classification lives in its Second Schedule and the punishment table in its Third Schedule, and the volume read here is the subsidiary laws volume, whose contents page lists four instruments and none of them is the Act. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 7(4)(b) deems a person found with more than one gramme of cocaine to be in possession for the purpose of supplying it to another for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the burden of proof is on the accused. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule II is the prescribing schedule for the strong medicines. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26, one more than Schedule I, and regulation 7 allows administration of a Schedule II drug, regulation 8 its production and supply and regulation 10 its possession, each on the conditions those regulations set. Regulation 15 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 16 what a supplier may do on one. None of that reaches a prescription written outside Belize, and regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule II from the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act. Schedule V is the exempted preparations schedule. Regulation 4(1) disapplies the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act for it and regulation 4(2)(b) disapplies the possession prohibition in section 7(1) outright, not merely for a medicinal product form. Only regulations 24 and 25 then apply. A preparation qualifies only if it is inside the printed strength limit for its paragraph.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Cocaine, at Schedule II paragraph 1. Cocaine returned six occurrences in the subsidiary volume and seven in the 1990 Act text; Ecgonine two in each. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

Belize, Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule II paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · the Act's offence and penalty provisions were read in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text stops partway through section 28 and carries none of its own three schedules, so no class and no ordinary possession maximum is taken from it · read as at 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Codeine is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 6, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the left column of paragraph 6 under Amphetamine, with Nicocodine and Norcodeine in the right column and Dihydrocodeine and Acetyldihydrocodeine in the same list. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Codeine is also one of the nine substances in Schedule V paragraph 1. That paragraph excepts a preparation of codeine that is not for injection, is compounded with other active or inert ingredients, and contains not more than 100 milligrammes calculated as base per dosage unit, or a total concentration of not more than 2.5 per cent calculated as base in an undivided preparation. Schedule V is the one schedule that regulation 4 lifts clear of the possession prohibition altogether. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule II is the prescribing schedule for the strong medicines. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26, one more than Schedule I, and regulation 7 allows administration of a Schedule II drug, regulation 8 its production and supply and regulation 10 its possession, each on the conditions those regulations set. Regulation 15 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 16 what a supplier may do on one. None of that reaches a prescription written outside Belize, and regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule II from the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act. Schedule V is the exempted preparations schedule. Regulation 4(1) disapplies the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act for it and regulation 4(2)(b) disapplies the possession prohibition in section 7(1) outright, not merely for a medicinal product form. Only regulations 24 and 25 then apply. A preparation qualifies only if it is inside the printed strength limit for its paragraph.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Codeine, at Schedule II paragraph 6. Codeine returned eleven occurrences in the subsidiary volume across Codeine, Norcodeine, Nicocodine, Dihydrocodeine and Acetyldihydrocodeine, and none in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Cocaine is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. The printed entry is the single word Cocaine, in the left column of Schedule II paragraph 1. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Crack is not a separate entry and does not need to be. The Act defines cocaine at section 2(1)(ga) as methylbenzoylecgonine, or its hydrochloride, and says in terms that the definition includes crack. That is the whole of the reasoning for this row and it is a definition read off the Act rather than an inference from chemistry. The 0.1 per cent exempt preparation in Schedule V paragraph 2 is a compounded medicinal preparation and has nothing to do with smokable base. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 7(4)(b) sets one gramme of cocaine as the presumption quantity, and because section 2(1)(ga) defines cocaine to include crack, that one gramme figure is the one that applies to this form as well. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule II is the prescribing schedule for the strong medicines. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26, one more than Schedule I, and regulation 7 allows administration of a Schedule II drug, regulation 8 its production and supply and regulation 10 its possession, each on the conditions those regulations set. Regulation 15 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 16 what a supplier may do on one. None of that reaches a prescription written outside Belize, and regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule II from the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Cocaine, at Schedule II paragraph 1. Crack returned one occurrence, inside the section 2(1)(ga) definition in the 1990 Act text, and none in the subsidiary volume. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Delta-8-THC is a Class A controlled drug in Belize when it is not contained in cannabis or cannabis resin, as a cannabinol derivative, and the answer rests on reading the words «other Cannabinol deravitives.» on the Schedule II page as an entry of their own. Section 2(1) of the Act defines «cannabinol derivatives» as «the following substances, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin, namely, tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives». Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 prints «Cannabinol, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin» and, in the right column, the words «other Cannabinol deravitives.», misspelt and set inside the entry for morphine methobromide and the other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives, which is how the Revised Edition 2020 page prints it. The Misuse of Drugs Regulations print «Cannabinol derivatives» as a clean entry of its own in Schedule I paragraph 1(a). Cannabis and cannabis resin are in Part II, Class B, so a cannabinoid still contained in cannabis is cannabis and Class B. The 1990 text as UNODC holds it lettered the same definition section 2(1)(f). PubChem names cannabinol 6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentylbenzo[c]chromen-1-ol and delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol 6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6a,7,10,10a-tetrahydrobenzo[c]chromen-1-ol, the same skeleton with four added hydrogens, which is a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol. Whether delta-8-THC made by converting extracted cannabidiol is still «contained in cannabis or cannabis resin» is not stated, and the CBD row leaves the matching question open. Section 2(1) also takes industrial hemp out of «cannabis». Schedule II of the Act is headed «Controlled Drugs» and cites section 4, and section 4(1) provides that the expression controlled drugs means any substance or product for the time being specified in Part I, II or III of Schedule II, and that Class A, Class B and Class C drugs are those specified respectively in Parts I, II and III. The Act read is Chapter 103 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, whose Schedule II carries the footnote «This Schedule was amended by Statutory Instrument No. 5 of 2014 and Statutory Instrument No 132 of 2020.» The two later amending Acts, No. 25 of 2023 and No. 26 of 2024, were read too: the first amends section 48(4) and the second repeals section 28B, and neither touches section 4, section 7, section 18, section 28 or any Schedule.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. This is a Class A drug, and section 28 gives Schedule III effect for every offence other than drug trafficking. Schedule III punishes possession under section 7(2) of a Class A drug on summary conviction with «5 years or $100,000, or both.» Section 28(2) reads a period in that table as the maximum term and a sum as the maximum fine, and Schedule III prints a summary column only for this offence. Possession with intent to supply is a drug trafficking offence, and section 18(1) punishes drug trafficking and possession for the purpose of drug trafficking without regard to class. On summary conviction the person shall be imprisoned for not less than three years and up to ten years and, in addition, shall be ordered to pay a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars and up to one hundred thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of that value, whichever is greater. On conviction on indictment it is not less than five years and up to fourteen years and, in addition, a fine of not less than fifty thousand dollars and up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value. The proviso that lets a court refrain from the mandatory custodial term for special reasons recorded in writing is written for quantities of heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, and the section 7(4) presumption quantities name the same five drugs, so neither prints a figure for this substance. The Senior Courts' Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, tells courts that in drug trafficking the mandatory minimum custodial sentence and fine should both be imposed unless the proviso in that section applies or in the circumstances of the particular case it is grossly disproportionate. Section 18(2) deems a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises, any other place of education or training, a centre for the rehabilitation of drug addicts, or the immediate vicinity of any of them, to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 28(6) requires a suspended sentence and referral to a drug rehabilitation centre for a first time offender proved to be addicted, in any case other than drug trafficking. If the delta-8-THC is still in the plant or its resin, the row is cannabis instead, which is Class B, and section 7(7) of the Act makes possession of not more than ten grammes of cannabis or cannabis resin not unlawful outside the premises of an educational institution. These figures are the Revised Edition 2020 text. The 1990 text as UNODC holds it, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, numbered drug trafficking as section 17, punishment as section 27 and the offence of smoking or otherwise using prepared opium, cocaine, heroin or cannabis as section 11, which the Revised Edition prints as section 12, and it printed different trafficking figures, a fine or imprisonment or both, which the Revised Edition, citing Acts 26 of 1992 and 18 of 1998 in the margin of section 18, has replaced with a mandatory term and a fine together.
If prescribed / medical: The Misuse of Drugs Regulations sort controlled drugs into five schedules for their own purposes, and regulation 3 says so in terms: «Schedules I to V shall have effect for the purpose of specifying the controlled drugs to which certain provisions of these Regulations apply.» Schedule I of the Regulations is headed «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» Regulation 5 makes a licence of the Minister what renders production, supply or possession lawful. Regulation 4 lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition only for Schedules IV and V, and the section 7(1) possession prohibition only for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product, a Schedule V drug and poppy straw, so there is no ordinary dispensed medicine route for a Schedule I drug and nothing a traveller carries makes one. «Cannabinol derivatives» is printed in Schedule I paragraph 1(a) of the Regulations.
Documentation: Nothing a traveller can carry makes possession lawful, because the Regulations give a Schedule I drug no prescription route. Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and section 5(2) of the Act lifts the import prohibition only for a drug excepted by regulations made under section 9 or imported under a licence issued by the Minister. For this row the facts to carry are the definition of cannabinol derivatives in section 2(1) of the Act and the Part I entry. Delta-8 returned nothing in the Act or the Regulations; tetrahydro derivatives returned two occurrences in the Act. Read on 3 October 2026.

Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, section 2(1), the definition of cannabinol derivatives, and Schedule II Part I paragraph 1, in the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, with sections 4, 7, 18 and 28 and Schedule III of the same volume · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule I paragraph 1(a), «Cannabinol derivatives», in the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020 · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2020, S.I. 132 of 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6a67dbac595cd_SI_No._132_of_2020_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment_of_Second_Schedule__Order__2020.pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 25 of 2023, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/64baeb84e3181_Act_No._25_of_2023_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment__Act__2023..pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 26 of 2024, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67fe7a0e1645c_Act_No._26_of_2024_Misuse_of_Drugs_Amendment_Act-2024.pdf · Senior Courts of Belize, Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67991ef1f0520_Practice_Direction_No._7_of_2025_Sentencing_Guidelines_for__Drug_Offences.pdf · for comparison only, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · PubChem, delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol CID 638026, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/638026 · PubChem, cannabinol CID 2543, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/2543 · read as at 3 October 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Diazepam

Legal status: Diazepam is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the left column between Delorazepam and Estazolam, opposite Oxazepam. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS EXCEPTED FROM THE PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION AND, WHEN IN THE FORM OF A MEDICINAL PRODUCT, POSSESSION AND SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 22, 23, 25 AND 26». The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. For a traveller that schedule is the answer rather than a technicality. Regulation 4(2)(a) provides that section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product, and regulation 4(1) lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. Diazepam sits in the middle of the list rather than at either end, and the entry was read in place in the two column setting rather than matched on a substring. It is the most widely dispensed name on the list, and the practical question for a traveller is whether what is carried is still in the form of a medicinal product. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule IV is where regulation 4(2)(a) does its work, and it is the most useful rule in the whole volume for a traveller. Section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product. Regulation 4(1) separately disapplies the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. So a dispensed medicinal product containing a Schedule IV drug is outside both prohibitions on the face of the Regulations. Regulations 22, 23, 25 and 26 still apply, and the exemption is written about the medicinal product form and not about loose material.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Diazepam, at Schedule IV paragraph 1. Diazepam returned two occurrences in the subsidiary volume, the entry and the index line, and none in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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DMT

Legal status: N, N-Dimethyltryptamine is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule I paragraph 1(a), in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is the fourth of five chemical names at the foot of the paragraph, after Tenocyclidine, the bromo dimethoxy phenethylamine entry and N, N-Diethyltryptamine, and before the dimethoxy dimethylphenethylamine line. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. The comma and space inside the printed name are the volume's own setting. Paragraph 1(b) then reaches any compound derived from tryptamine or from a ring-hydroxy tryptamine by substitution at the nitrogen atom of the sidechain with alkyl substituents and no other substituents, which is why the other tryptamine rows in this batch are decided one at a time rather than by family. No class is given here. Class follows from Part I, Part II or Part III of the Act's Second Schedule under section 4, and the subsidiary volume read for this row prints no part of that schedule and uses the words Class A, Class B and Class C nowhere at all. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule I is the heaviest of the five. Regulation 5 means a licence of the Minister is what makes production, supply or possession lawful, and the Schedule I heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 and 26, which are the documentation, prescription form, register, destruction and record keeping duties. Regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule I from anything: its exceptions run to Schedules IV and V and to poppy straw only. So there is no ordinary dispensed medicine route for a Schedule I drug in Belize and nothing a traveller carries makes one.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: N, N-Dimethyltryptamine, at Schedule I paragraph 1(a). Dimethyltryptamine returned one occurrence in the subsidiary volume and none in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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DOM

Legal status: DOM is a Class A controlled drug in Belize. Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, prints «2,5-Dimethoxy-a,4-dimethylphenethylamine.» in its right column, where the letter a stands for alpha. PubChem names 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine 1-(2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylphenyl)propan-2-amine, which is a phenethylamine carrying a methyl on the alpha carbon and a methyl at ring position four, with methoxy groups at two and five. Schedule II of the Act is headed «Controlled Drugs» and cites section 4, and section 4(1) provides that the expression controlled drugs means any substance or product for the time being specified in Part I, II or III of Schedule II, and that Class A, Class B and Class C drugs are those specified respectively in Parts I, II and III. The Misuse of Drugs Regulations print the same compound in their Schedule I paragraph 1(a) as «2,5-Dimethoxy- x,4-dimethylphenethylamine», with the Greek letter replaced by a bare x, and print it a second time in their Schedule II paragraph 1 as «2, 5 Dimethoxy -a, 4 Dimethylphene thylamine». Schedule I paragraph 1(c) of the Regulations, the generic phenethylamine clause, has no counterpart in Part I of the Act, and DOM does not need it because it is named. The neighbouring Act entry «4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxy-a-methylphenthylamine.» is DOB, a different compound, and neither entry is 2C-B. The Act read is Chapter 103 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, whose Schedule II carries the footnote «This Schedule was amended by Statutory Instrument No. 5 of 2014 and Statutory Instrument No 132 of 2020.» The two later amending Acts, No. 25 of 2023 and No. 26 of 2024, were read too: the first amends section 48(4) and the second repeals section 28B, and neither touches section 4, section 7, section 18, section 28 or any Schedule.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. This is a Class A drug, and section 28 gives Schedule III effect for every offence other than drug trafficking. Schedule III punishes possession under section 7(2) of a Class A drug on summary conviction with «5 years or $100,000, or both.» Section 28(2) reads a period in that table as the maximum term and a sum as the maximum fine, and Schedule III prints a summary column only for this offence. Possession with intent to supply is a drug trafficking offence, and section 18(1) punishes drug trafficking and possession for the purpose of drug trafficking without regard to class. On summary conviction the person shall be imprisoned for not less than three years and up to ten years and, in addition, shall be ordered to pay a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars and up to one hundred thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of that value, whichever is greater. On conviction on indictment it is not less than five years and up to fourteen years and, in addition, a fine of not less than fifty thousand dollars and up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value. The proviso that lets a court refrain from the mandatory custodial term for special reasons recorded in writing is written for quantities of heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, and the section 7(4) presumption quantities name the same five drugs, so neither prints a figure for this substance. The Senior Courts' Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, tells courts that in drug trafficking the mandatory minimum custodial sentence and fine should both be imposed unless the proviso in that section applies or in the circumstances of the particular case it is grossly disproportionate. Section 18(2) deems a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises, any other place of education or training, a centre for the rehabilitation of drug addicts, or the immediate vicinity of any of them, to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 28(6) requires a suspended sentence and referral to a drug rehabilitation centre for a first time offender proved to be addicted, in any case other than drug trafficking. These figures are the Revised Edition 2020 text. The 1990 text as UNODC holds it, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, numbered drug trafficking as section 17, punishment as section 27 and the offence of smoking or otherwise using prepared opium, cocaine, heroin or cannabis as section 11, which the Revised Edition prints as section 12, and it printed different trafficking figures, a fine or imprisonment or both, which the Revised Edition, citing Acts 26 of 1992 and 18 of 1998 in the margin of section 18, has replaced with a mandatory term and a fine together.
If prescribed / medical: The Misuse of Drugs Regulations sort controlled drugs into five schedules for their own purposes, and regulation 3 says so in terms: «Schedules I to V shall have effect for the purpose of specifying the controlled drugs to which certain provisions of these Regulations apply.» Schedule I of the Regulations is headed «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» Regulation 5 makes a licence of the Minister what renders production, supply or possession lawful. Regulation 4 lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition only for Schedules IV and V, and the section 7(1) possession prohibition only for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product, a Schedule V drug and poppy straw, so there is no ordinary dispensed medicine route for a Schedule I drug and nothing a traveller carries makes one. DOM is printed in Schedule I paragraph 1(a) of the Regulations and again in Schedule II paragraph 1. The Regulations do not say which entry governs, and the stricter Schedule I entry is the one a traveller should assume, because Schedule I carries no prescribing route.
Documentation: Assume that nothing a traveller can carry makes possession lawful. The Regulations' Schedule I entry gives no prescription route; their Schedule II entry would bring in regulation 10(2), possession on a practitioner's directions, but the Regulations do not say which entry governs. Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and section 5(2) of the Act lifts the import prohibition only for a drug excepted by regulations made under section 9 or imported under a licence issued by the Minister. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry «2,5-Dimethoxy-a,4-dimethylphenethylamine.» in Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 of the Act. Read on 3 October 2026.

Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, Schedule II Part I paragraph 1, the entry «2,5-Dimethoxy-a,4-dimethylphenethylamine.», in the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, with sections 4, 7, 18 and 28 and Schedule III of the same volume · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule I paragraph 1(a), in the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020 · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2020, S.I. 132 of 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6a67dbac595cd_SI_No._132_of_2020_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment_of_Second_Schedule__Order__2020.pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 25 of 2023, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/64baeb84e3181_Act_No._25_of_2023_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment__Act__2023..pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 26 of 2024, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67fe7a0e1645c_Act_No._26_of_2024_Misuse_of_Drugs_Amendment_Act-2024.pdf · Senior Courts of Belize, Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67991ef1f0520_Practice_Direction_No._7_of_2025_Sentencing_Guidelines_for__Drug_Offences.pdf · for comparison only, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · PubChem, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine CID 85875, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/85875 · read as at 3 October 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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DXM

Legal status: Dextromethorphan is expressly excepted from Belize's list of controlled drugs. Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, prints «Levomethorphan.» and «Racemethorphan.», and Part I paragraph 2, which would otherwise bring in every stereoisomer, reads «Any stereoisomeric form of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 not being dextromethorphan or dextrophan.» PubChem gives racemethorphan and dextromethorphan the same formula, C18H25NO, with dextromethorphan as the single (1S,9S,10S) isomer, so the exception is the only thing keeping it out, and it is printed. The Misuse of Drugs Regulations repeat the words «not being dextromethorphan or dextrophan» in their own Schedule II. Dextromethorphan returns nothing in the Chemists and Druggists Act Poisons List, Chapter 311, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020. The Act read is Chapter 103 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, whose Schedule II carries the footnote «This Schedule was amended by Statutory Instrument No. 5 of 2014 and Statutory Instrument No 132 of 2020.» The two later amending Acts, No. 25 of 2023 and No. 26 of 2024, were read too: the first amends section 48(4) and the second repeals section 28B, and neither touches section 4, section 7, section 18, section 28 or any Schedule.
Consequences if caught: No possession or trafficking offence under the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, attaches. Because it is not a controlled drug, the possession offences in section 7(1), section 7(2) and section 7(3) of the Act, the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, and the drug trafficking penalties in section 18 do not reach it; the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, numbered those penalties section 17, punishment section 27 and the smoking offence, now section 12, section 11. Schedule III, which section 28 applies to every Act offence other than drug trafficking, attaches no punishment to it, and Regulation 4 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, which lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V and the section 7 possession prohibition for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product and a Schedule V drug, has nothing to lift. Like every answer drawn from Schedule II, this one would change if an Order made after 31 December 2020 and not listed on the portal had added it. The Act read is the Revised Edition 2020; the 1990 text runs from section 1 and stops inside section 28, and carries none of its Schedules. Section 18(4) of Chapter 103 is the one provision that can still reach it: a person who supplies or offers to supply any substance other than a controlled drug which he represents or holds out to be a controlled drug commits an offence, on summary conviction a fine of up to one thousand dollars or imprisonment of up to one year. The Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Acts No. 25 of 2023 and No. 26 of 2024 were read and touch neither paragraph 2 of Part I nor section 18.
If prescribed / medical: Because it is not a controlled drug, the five schedules of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations do not apply to it, and the Chemists and Druggists Act Poisons List does not name it. Whether a dextromethorphan cough product needs a prescription in Belize is not decided by any instrument read for this row.
Documentation: Carry it in the original labelled packaging, and if it was prescribed, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. For this row the fact to carry is the printed exception in Schedule II Part I paragraph 2 of the Act, «not being dextromethorphan or dextrophan». Read on 3 October 2026.

Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, Schedule II Part I paragraphs 1 and 2 and section 18(4), in the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, with sections 4, 7, 18 and 28 and Schedule III of the same volume · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule II, in the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020 · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2020, S.I. 132 of 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6a67dbac595cd_SI_No._132_of_2020_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment_of_Second_Schedule__Order__2020.pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 25 of 2023, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/64baeb84e3181_Act_No._25_of_2023_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment__Act__2023..pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 26 of 2024, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67fe7a0e1645c_Act_No._26_of_2024_Misuse_of_Drugs_Amendment_Act-2024.pdf · Senior Courts of Belize, Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67991ef1f0520_Practice_Direction_No._7_of_2025_Sentencing_Guidelines_for__Drug_Offences.pdf · for comparison only, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · Belize, Chemists and Druggists Act, Chapter 311, Schedule 1 Poisons List, Revised Edition 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/639770a1bf206_Cap_311_Chemists_and_Druggists_Act.pdf · PubChem, dextromethorphan CID 5360696, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/5360696 · PubChem, racemethorphan CID 3008, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/3008 · read as at 3 October 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Ephedrine is printed by name as a Class A controlled drug in Belize. Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, carries a run of precursor chemicals after «N-acetylanthLranilic acid.», printed «Ephedrine. Ergometrine. Ergotamine. Isosafrole. Lysergic acid.» and continuing through «Pseudoephedrine.» and «Toluene.» to «Methylamine.» That run is inside Part I and not a separate list: the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2020, S.I. 132 of 2020, provides that «Part 1 of the Second Schedule to the Act is amended by inserting immediately after the word “Toluene” the following substances» and adds Norephedrine and the chloroephedrines, and the Schedule's footnote records an earlier amendment by Statutory Instrument No. 5 of 2014, which was not read because the portal's statutory instrument listing begins at 2020. Schedule II of the Act is headed «Controlled Drugs» and cites section 4, and section 4(1) provides that the expression controlled drugs means any substance or product for the time being specified in Part I, II or III of Schedule II, and that Class A, Class B and Class C drugs are those specified respectively in Parts I, II and III. One question this cell does not settle beyond doubt is the salt. Part I paragraph 4 reads «Any salt of a substance for the time being specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 3 except the salts of hydrochloric acid and sulphuric acid.» Hydrochloric acid and sulphuric acid are themselves printed in the same precursor run, so the exception can be read as keeping the salts of those two acids out of Class A, which leaves ephedrine hydrochloride inside as a salt of ephedrine. Read the other way, as excepting every hydrochloride and sulphate, it would also take diamorphine hydrochloride and morphine sulphate out of paragraph 4, which cannot be what the paragraph means, so the narrow reading is the one taken here; the instrument does not itself say so. The base is Class A by name in either reading. Separately, the Chemists and Druggists Act, Chapter 311, lists «Ephedra, alkaloids of» in its First Schedule Poisons List, exempting «Substances containing less than one percent of the alkaloids of ephedra.» Section 31(1)(d)(i) of that Act provides that nothing in it extends to the sale of «controlled drugs under and in accordance with the Misuse of Drugs Act», so for ephedrine the Misuse of Drugs Act governs. In the Regulations, Cathine in Schedule III paragraph 1(a) and Phenmetrazine in Schedule II paragraph 6 are printed nearby, and neither is ephedrine. The Act read is Chapter 103 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, whose Schedule II carries the footnote «This Schedule was amended by Statutory Instrument No. 5 of 2014 and Statutory Instrument No 132 of 2020.» The two later amending Acts, No. 25 of 2023 and No. 26 of 2024, were read too: the first amends section 48(4) and the second repeals section 28B, and neither touches section 4, section 7, section 18, section 28 or any Schedule.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. This is a Class A drug, and section 28 gives Schedule III effect for every offence other than drug trafficking. Schedule III punishes possession under section 7(2) of a Class A drug on summary conviction with «5 years or $100,000, or both.» Section 28(2) reads a period in that table as the maximum term and a sum as the maximum fine, and Schedule III prints a summary column only for this offence. Possession with intent to supply is a drug trafficking offence, and section 18(1) punishes drug trafficking and possession for the purpose of drug trafficking without regard to class. On summary conviction the person shall be imprisoned for not less than three years and up to ten years and, in addition, shall be ordered to pay a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars and up to one hundred thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of that value, whichever is greater. On conviction on indictment it is not less than five years and up to fourteen years and, in addition, a fine of not less than fifty thousand dollars and up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value. The proviso that lets a court refrain from the mandatory custodial term for special reasons recorded in writing is written for quantities of heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, and the section 7(4) presumption quantities name the same five drugs, so neither prints a figure for this substance. The Senior Courts' Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, tells courts that in drug trafficking the mandatory minimum custodial sentence and fine should both be imposed unless the proviso in that section applies or in the circumstances of the particular case it is grossly disproportionate. Section 18(2) deems a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises, any other place of education or training, a centre for the rehabilitation of drug addicts, or the immediate vicinity of any of them, to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 28(6) requires a suspended sentence and referral to a drug rehabilitation centre for a first time offender proved to be addicted, in any case other than drug trafficking. These figures are the Revised Edition 2020 text. The 1990 text as UNODC holds it, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, numbered drug trafficking as section 17, punishment as section 27 and the offence of smoking or otherwise using prepared opium, cocaine, heroin or cannabis as section 11, which the Revised Edition prints as section 12, and it printed different trafficking figures, a fine or imprisonment or both, which the Revised Edition, citing Acts 26 of 1992 and 18 of 1998 in the margin of section 18, has replaced with a mandatory term and a fine together.
If prescribed / medical: Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine return nothing in the Misuse of Drugs Regulations as printed in the Subsidiary Laws Revised Edition 2020, showing the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020, so none of the five schedules of the Regulations carries it. Regulation 3 explains why that matters: «Schedules I to V shall have effect for the purpose of specifying the controlled drugs to which certain provisions of these Regulations apply.» The administration, manufacture and supply permissions in regulations 7 and 8 are written for drugs in named schedules, and Regulation 4 lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition only for Schedules IV and V. Regulation 5, a licence of the Minister, is written for any controlled drug. So on the face of the two instruments a Class A drug that the Regulations never scheduled has no prescribing route at all, and how pharmacies in Belize in fact handle ephedrine products was not established. Under the Chemists and Druggists Act the ephedra alkaloids are poisons, which may be sold only in a shop under the personal control of a registered chemist and druggist, under section 22(1), although section 31(1)(d)(i) takes the sale of a controlled drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act outside that Act.
Documentation: No prescribing route for ephedrine was found in the Regulations, so a prescription is not shown by these instruments to make possession lawful. Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and section 5(2) of the Act lifts the import prohibition only for a drug excepted by regulations made under section 9 or imported under a licence issued by the Minister. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry «Ephedrine.» in Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 of the Act. Ephedrine returned five occurrences in the Act, in the entries Ephedrine, Pseudoephedrine, Norephedrine, Chloropseudoephedrine and Choloroephedrine, and none in the Regulations. Read on 3 October 2026.

Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, Schedule II Part I paragraphs 1 and 4, the entry «Ephedrine.», in the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, with sections 4, 7, 18 and 28 and Schedule III of the same volume · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2020, S.I. 132 of 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6a67dbac595cd_SI_No._132_of_2020_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment_of_Second_Schedule__Order__2020.pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 25 of 2023, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/64baeb84e3181_Act_No._25_of_2023_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment__Act__2023..pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 26 of 2024, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67fe7a0e1645c_Act_No._26_of_2024_Misuse_of_Drugs_Amendment_Act-2024.pdf · Senior Courts of Belize, Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67991ef1f0520_Practice_Direction_No._7_of_2025_Sentencing_Guidelines_for__Drug_Offences.pdf · for comparison only, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · Belize, Chemists and Druggists Act, Chapter 311, Schedule 1 Poisons List, «Ephedra, alkaloids of», Revised Edition 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/639770a1bf206_Cap_311_Chemists_and_Druggists_Act.pdf · Misuse of Drugs Regulations, regulations 3 to 8, Subsidiary Laws Revised Edition 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/63f5161530204_Cap_103_Misuse_of_Drugs_Regulations_1.pdf · PubChem, ephedrine CID 9294, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/9294 · read as at 3 October 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Fentanyl is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the left column between Etoxeridine and Furethidine, with Alfentanil, Carfentanil, Lofentanil and Sufentanil all carried as separate entries in the same paragraph. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Schedule I paragraph 1(d) adds a generic clause for compounds structurally derived from fentanyl, expressly excluding anything already specified in Schedule II, and lists six named modifications. So the fentanyl family is split across two schedules on purpose, with the named analogues in the heavier prescribing regime and the unnamed derivatives in the other. No class is given here. Class follows from Part I, Part II or Part III of the Act's Second Schedule under section 4, and the subsidiary volume read for this row prints no part of that schedule and uses the words Class A, Class B and Class C nowhere at all. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule II is the prescribing schedule for the strong medicines. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26, one more than Schedule I, and regulation 7 allows administration of a Schedule II drug, regulation 8 its production and supply and regulation 10 its possession, each on the conditions those regulations set. Regulation 15 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 16 what a supplier may do on one. None of that reaches a prescription written outside Belize, and regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule II from the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Fentanyl, at Schedule II paragraph 1. Fentanyl returned two occurrences in the subsidiary volume, the entry and the generic clause, and none in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Heroin

Legal status: Diamorphine (Heroin) is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the left column between Dextromoramide and Etoxeridine. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. The Act carries heroin by its chemical name as well. Section 7(4)(a) of the 1990 text deems a person found with more than two grammes of diacetylmorphine, heroin, to be in possession for the purpose of supplying it, with the burden of disproof on the accused. That is the lowest of the five printed quantities in that subsection. No class is given here. Class follows from Part I, Part II or Part III of the Act's Second Schedule under section 4, and the subsidiary volume read for this row prints no part of that schedule and uses the words Class A, Class B and Class C nowhere at all. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 7(4)(a) deems a person found with more than two grammes of diacetylmorphine, heroin, to be in possession for the purpose of supplying it to another for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the burden of proof is on the accused. That is the lowest of the five printed figures in the subsection. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule II is the prescribing schedule for the strong medicines. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26, one more than Schedule I, and regulation 7 allows administration of a Schedule II drug, regulation 8 its production and supply and regulation 10 its possession, each on the conditions those regulations set. Regulation 15 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 16 what a supplier may do on one. None of that reaches a prescription written outside Belize, and regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule II from the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Diamorphine (Heroin), at Schedule II paragraph 1. Diamorphine and Heroin each returned one occurrence in the subsidiary volume, and Heroin four in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Hydrocodone is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the left column between Furethidine and Hydromorphinol, and a second related entry, Dihydrocodeinone 0-carboxymethyloxime, appears in the right column of the same paragraph. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Hydrocodone and its oxime are two lines, not one. Hydromorphinol, Hydromorphone and Hydroxypethidine follow immediately, so this is a densely populated part of the list and the entry was read in place rather than matched on a substring. The class is left open on purpose. The Act's own classification lives in its Second Schedule and the punishment table in its Third Schedule, and the volume read here is the subsidiary laws volume, whose contents page lists four instruments and none of them is the Act. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule II is the prescribing schedule for the strong medicines. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26, one more than Schedule I, and regulation 7 allows administration of a Schedule II drug, regulation 8 its production and supply and regulation 10 its possession, each on the conditions those regulations set. Regulation 15 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 16 what a supplier may do on one. None of that reaches a prescription written outside Belize, and regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule II from the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Hydrocodone, at Schedule II paragraph 1. Hydrocodone returned one occurrence in the subsidiary volume and Dihydrocodeinone one; neither appears in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Lorazepam is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the right column between Loprazolam and Lormetazepam, opposite Camazepam. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS EXCEPTED FROM THE PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION AND, WHEN IN THE FORM OF A MEDICINAL PRODUCT, POSSESSION AND SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 22, 23, 25 AND 26». The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. For a traveller that schedule is the answer rather than a technicality. Regulation 4(2)(a) provides that section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product, and regulation 4(1) lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. Loprazolam and Lormetazepam bracket it and both are separate entries. The whole Schedule IV list runs to thirty nine names, of which thirty three are benzodiazepines and six are not: Fencamfamin, Fenproporex, Mefenorex, N-Ethylamphetamine, Propylthexedrine and Pyrovalorone. So the schedule is not a benzodiazepine schedule despite reading like one. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule IV is where regulation 4(2)(a) does its work, and it is the most useful rule in the whole volume for a traveller. Section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product. Regulation 4(1) separately disapplies the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. So a dispensed medicinal product containing a Schedule IV drug is outside both prohibitions on the face of the Regulations. Regulations 22, 23, 25 and 26 still apply, and the exemption is written about the medicinal product form and not about loose material.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Lorazepam, at Schedule IV paragraph 1. Lorazepam returned two occurrences in the subsidiary volume, the entry and the index line, and none in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: Lysergamide is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule I paragraph 1(a), in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed immediately above the longer Lysergide entry and immediately below Eticylidine. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Lysergamide and Lysergide are separate lines. The plants that carry lysergamides, the morning glory and Argyreia nervosa, are not named anywhere in the volume, and a search for them returned nothing, so this row rests on the chemical name alone. Section 4 of the Act sorts every controlled drug into Part I, Part II or Part III of the Second Schedule, which is Class A, Class B and Class C. That Second Schedule sits in the Substantive Laws volume of Chapter 103, which was not among the four instruments in the subsidiary volume read here, so no class is stated. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule I is the heaviest of the five. Regulation 5 means a licence of the Minister is what makes production, supply or possession lawful, and the Schedule I heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 and 26, which are the documentation, prescription form, register, destruction and record keeping duties. Regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule I from anything: its exceptions run to Schedules IV and V and to poppy straw only. So there is no ordinary dispensed medicine route for a Schedule I drug in Belize and nothing a traveller carries makes one.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Lysergamide, at Schedule I paragraph 1(a). Lysergamide returned two occurrences in the subsidiary volume, at the standalone entry and inside the Lysergide entry; morning glory, Argyreia and ergine returned nothing. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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LSD

Legal status: Lysergide and other N-alkyl derivatives of lysergamide is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule I paragraph 1(a), in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It sits directly under the standalone Lysergamide entry and above Mescaline. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. The entry is not a bare name. It carries its own small generic clause, other N-alkyl derivatives of lysergamide, and that clause is the reason the 1P-LSD row in this batch is a question rather than a copy of this one, because a propionyl group on the ring nitrogen is not the same thing as an N-alkyl derivative of lysergamide. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule I is the heaviest of the five. Regulation 5 means a licence of the Minister is what makes production, supply or possession lawful, and the Schedule I heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 and 26, which are the documentation, prescription form, register, destruction and record keeping duties. Regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule I from anything: its exceptions run to Schedules IV and V and to poppy straw only. So there is no ordinary dispensed medicine route for a Schedule I drug in Belize and nothing a traveller carries makes one.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Lysergide and other N-alkyl derivatives of lysergamide, at Schedule I paragraph 1(a). Lysergide returned one occurrence in the subsidiary volume and none in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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MDA

Legal status: MDA is a Class A controlled drug in Belize. Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, prints it by its international name with the chemical name in brackets, «Tenamphetamine(methlenedioxyomphetamine).», the misspelling as printed, in the right column directly under «Sufentanil.» PubChem names 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine 1-(1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)propan-2-amine. Schedule II of the Act is headed «Controlled Drugs» and cites section 4, and section 4(1) provides that the expression controlled drugs means any substance or product for the time being specified in Part I, II or III of Schedule II, and that Class A, Class B and Class C drugs are those specified respectively in Parts I, II and III. The Misuse of Drugs Regulations print Tenamphetamine in their Schedule II paragraph 1, on page 64 of the subsidiary volume directly above Thebacon; paragraph 6 of that Schedule, which begins at Acetyldihydrocodeine on page 65, does not carry it. This row is the demethylated relative of MDMA, and the MDMA row is a separate question: Tenamphetamine is not MDMA, and Part I of the Act prints no clause that reaches ring substituted amphetamines in general. The Act read is Chapter 103 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, whose Schedule II carries the footnote «This Schedule was amended by Statutory Instrument No. 5 of 2014 and Statutory Instrument No 132 of 2020.» The two later amending Acts, No. 25 of 2023 and No. 26 of 2024, were read too: the first amends section 48(4) and the second repeals section 28B, and neither touches section 4, section 7, section 18, section 28 or any Schedule.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. This is a Class A drug, and section 28 gives Schedule III effect for every offence other than drug trafficking. Schedule III punishes possession under section 7(2) of a Class A drug on summary conviction with «5 years or $100,000, or both.» Section 28(2) reads a period in that table as the maximum term and a sum as the maximum fine, and Schedule III prints a summary column only for this offence. Possession with intent to supply is a drug trafficking offence, and section 18(1) punishes drug trafficking and possession for the purpose of drug trafficking without regard to class. On summary conviction the person shall be imprisoned for not less than three years and up to ten years and, in addition, shall be ordered to pay a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars and up to one hundred thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of that value, whichever is greater. On conviction on indictment it is not less than five years and up to fourteen years and, in addition, a fine of not less than fifty thousand dollars and up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value. The proviso that lets a court refrain from the mandatory custodial term for special reasons recorded in writing is written for quantities of heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, and the section 7(4) presumption quantities name the same five drugs, so neither prints a figure for this substance. The Senior Courts' Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, tells courts that in drug trafficking the mandatory minimum custodial sentence and fine should both be imposed unless the proviso in that section applies or in the circumstances of the particular case it is grossly disproportionate. Section 18(2) deems a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises, any other place of education or training, a centre for the rehabilitation of drug addicts, or the immediate vicinity of any of them, to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 28(6) requires a suspended sentence and referral to a drug rehabilitation centre for a first time offender proved to be addicted, in any case other than drug trafficking. These figures are the Revised Edition 2020 text. The 1990 text as UNODC holds it, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, numbered drug trafficking as section 17, punishment as section 27 and the offence of smoking or otherwise using prepared opium, cocaine, heroin or cannabis as section 11, which the Revised Edition prints as section 12, and it printed different trafficking figures, a fine or imprisonment or both, which the Revised Edition, citing Acts 26 of 1992 and 18 of 1998 in the margin of section 18, has replaced with a mandatory term and a fine together.
If prescribed / medical: The Misuse of Drugs Regulations sort controlled drugs into five schedules for their own purposes, and regulation 3 says so in terms: «Schedules I to V shall have effect for the purpose of specifying the controlled drugs to which certain provisions of these Regulations apply.» Schedule II of the Regulations is headed «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» Regulation 7(2) lets a doctor or dentist administer to a patient any drug specified in Schedule II, III or IV, and regulation 8 lets a practitioner or a chemist and druggist manufacture or compound a Schedule II drug and supply it to a person who may lawfully have it. Regulation 10(2) lets a person have a Schedule II or III drug in his possession «for administration for medical, dental or veterinary purposes in accordance with the directions of a practitioner». Regulation 4 lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition only for Schedules IV and V, so it does not reach a Schedule II drug, and nothing in the Regulations read turns a prescription written outside Belize into an import authority. Tenamphetamine is printed in Schedule II paragraph 1 of the Regulations.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and section 5(2) of the Act lifts the import prohibition only for a drug excepted by regulations made under section 9 or imported under a licence issued by the Minister. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry «Tenamphetamine(methlenedioxyomphetamine).» in Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 of the Act. Tenamphetamine returned one occurrence in the Act and one in the Regulations. Read on 3 October 2026.

Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, Schedule II Part I paragraph 1, the entry «Tenamphetamine(methlenedioxyomphetamine).», in the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, with sections 4, 7, 18 and 28 and Schedule III of the same volume · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule II, in the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020 · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2020, S.I. 132 of 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6a67dbac595cd_SI_No._132_of_2020_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment_of_Second_Schedule__Order__2020.pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 25 of 2023, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/64baeb84e3181_Act_No._25_of_2023_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment__Act__2023..pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 26 of 2024, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67fe7a0e1645c_Act_No._26_of_2024_Misuse_of_Drugs_Amendment_Act-2024.pdf · Senior Courts of Belize, Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67991ef1f0520_Practice_Direction_No._7_of_2025_Sentencing_Guidelines_for__Drug_Offences.pdf · for comparison only, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · PubChem, 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine CID 1614, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/1614 · read as at 3 October 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Mescaline is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule I paragraph 1(a), in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed between the Lysergide entry and Psilocin. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Mescaline is named; the cactus is not. Lophophora williamsii, peyote and San Pedro return nothing anywhere in the volume, so the plant that carries this alkaloid is a separate question and is treated as one on the peyote row. No class is given here. Class follows from Part I, Part II or Part III of the Act's Second Schedule under section 4, and the subsidiary volume read for this row prints no part of that schedule and uses the words Class A, Class B and Class C nowhere at all. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule I is the heaviest of the five. Regulation 5 means a licence of the Minister is what makes production, supply or possession lawful, and the Schedule I heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 and 26, which are the documentation, prescription form, register, destruction and record keeping duties. Regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule I from anything: its exceptions run to Schedules IV and V and to poppy straw only. So there is no ordinary dispensed medicine route for a Schedule I drug in Belize and nothing a traveller carries makes one.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Mescaline, at Schedule I paragraph 1(a). Mescaline returned one occurrence in the subsidiary volume; Lophophora and peyote returned nothing in either file. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Methadone

Legal status: Methadone is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the left column between Metazocine and Methyadyl acetate, with Normethadone in the right column of the same paragraph. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Normethadone and Noracymethadol are separate entries in the same paragraph, and the volume prints Methyadyl acetate where a reader would expect methadyl acetate. Regulation 7 of these Regulations governs the administration of drugs in Schedules II, III, IV and V, and regulation 8 their production and supply, which is the practical difference between a Schedule II entry and a Schedule I one. No class is given here. Class follows from Part I, Part II or Part III of the Act's Second Schedule under section 4, and the subsidiary volume read for this row prints no part of that schedule and uses the words Class A, Class B and Class C nowhere at all. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule II is the prescribing schedule for the strong medicines. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26, one more than Schedule I, and regulation 7 allows administration of a Schedule II drug, regulation 8 its production and supply and regulation 10 its possession, each on the conditions those regulations set. Regulation 15 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 16 what a supplier may do on one. None of that reaches a prescription written outside Belize, and regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule II from the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Methadone, at Schedule II paragraph 1. Methadone returned three occurrences in the subsidiary volume and none in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Methylamphetamine is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 6, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the right column of paragraph 6 opposite Amphetamine, with Methaqualone above it and Methylphenidate below. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. The volume does not print the word methamphetamine anywhere. The entry is the older British name, Methylamphetamine, and that is the string this row is built on. Paragraph 7 then reaches any stereoisomeric form, which covers the d and l isomers without either being named. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule II is the prescribing schedule for the strong medicines. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26, one more than Schedule I, and regulation 7 allows administration of a Schedule II drug, regulation 8 its production and supply and regulation 10 its possession, each on the conditions those regulations set. Regulation 15 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 16 what a supplier may do on one. None of that reaches a prescription written outside Belize, and regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule II from the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Methylamphetamine, at Schedule II paragraph 6. Methylamphetamine returned one occurrence in the subsidiary volume; methamphetamine and metamfetamine returned nothing in either file. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Methaqualone is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 6, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the right column of paragraph 6 above Methylamphetamine, with Mecloqualone in the left column of the same list. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Mecloqualone is a separate entry in the same paragraph, so the pair is named rather than reached by a family rule. Glutethimide, Lefetamine and Phenmetrazine sit in the same paragraph, which is the sedative and stimulant tail of Schedule II and not part of the opioid list in paragraph 1. Section 4 of the Act sorts every controlled drug into Part I, Part II or Part III of the Second Schedule, which is Class A, Class B and Class C. That Second Schedule sits in the Substantive Laws volume of Chapter 103, which was not among the four instruments in the subsidiary volume read here, so no class is stated. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule II is the prescribing schedule for the strong medicines. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26, one more than Schedule I, and regulation 7 allows administration of a Schedule II drug, regulation 8 its production and supply and regulation 10 its possession, each on the conditions those regulations set. Regulation 15 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 16 what a supplier may do on one. None of that reaches a prescription written outside Belize, and regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule II from the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Methaqualone, at Schedule II paragraph 6. Methaqualone returned one occurrence in the subsidiary volume and Mecloqualone one; neither appears in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Methylphenidate is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 6, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the right column of paragraph 6 between Methylamphetamine and Nicocodine. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Methylphenidate is in paragraph 6, not paragraph 1, so it takes regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26 through the Schedule II heading but the extension paragraphs that apply to it are 7, 8 and 9 rather than 2 to 5. Modafinil, the other wakefulness drug in this batch, is not printed anywhere in the volume. No class is given here. Class follows from Part I, Part II or Part III of the Act's Second Schedule under section 4, and the subsidiary volume read for this row prints no part of that schedule and uses the words Class A, Class B and Class C nowhere at all. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule II is the prescribing schedule for the strong medicines. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26, one more than Schedule I, and regulation 7 allows administration of a Schedule II drug, regulation 8 its production and supply and regulation 10 its possession, each on the conditions those regulations set. Regulation 15 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 16 what a supplier may do on one. None of that reaches a prescription written outside Belize, and regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule II from the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Methylphenidate, at Schedule II paragraph 6. Methylphenidate returned one occurrence in the subsidiary volume and none in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Morphine

Legal status: Morphine is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the left column with Morpheridine above it and Morphine methobromide and the pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives below. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Schedule V paragraph 3 excepts any preparation of medicinal opium or of morphine containing not more than 0.2 per cent of morphine calculated as anhydrous morphine base and compounded so that it cannot be recovered by readily applicable means. Section 2(1)(w) of the Act defines morphine as the principal alkaloid of opium with the formula C17 H19 NO3, and section 7(4)(d) sets three grammes as the presumption quantity. The class is left open on purpose. The Act's own classification lives in its Second Schedule and the punishment table in its Third Schedule, and the volume read here is the subsidiary laws volume, whose contents page lists four instruments and none of them is the Act. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 7(4)(d) sets three grammes of morphine as the presumption quantity, and above it the person is deemed to hold the drug for the purpose of supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule II is the prescribing schedule for the strong medicines. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26, one more than Schedule I, and regulation 7 allows administration of a Schedule II drug, regulation 8 its production and supply and regulation 10 its possession, each on the conditions those regulations set. Regulation 15 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 16 what a supplier may do on one. None of that reaches a prescription written outside Belize, and regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule II from the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act. Schedule V is the exempted preparations schedule. Regulation 4(1) disapplies the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act for it and regulation 4(2)(b) disapplies the possession prohibition in section 7(1) outright, not merely for a medicinal product form. Only regulations 24 and 25 then apply. A preparation qualifies only if it is inside the printed strength limit for its paragraph.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Morphine, at Schedule II paragraph 1. Morphine returned twenty one occurrences in the subsidiary volume and four in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Nimetazepam is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the right column between Mefenorex and N-Ethylamphetamine above it and Nitrazepam below it. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS EXCEPTED FROM THE PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION AND, WHEN IN THE FORM OF A MEDICINAL PRODUCT, POSSESSION AND SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 22, 23, 25 AND 26». The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. For a traveller that schedule is the answer rather than a technicality. Regulation 4(2)(a) provides that section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product, and regulation 4(1) lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. Nimetazepam is printed in full, which is worth saying plainly because this substance is unnamed in a great many national schedules and is usually reached, if at all, through a benzodiazepine family rule. Belize names it. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule IV is where regulation 4(2)(a) does its work, and it is the most useful rule in the whole volume for a traveller. Section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product. Regulation 4(1) separately disapplies the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. So a dispensed medicinal product containing a Schedule IV drug is outside both prohibitions on the face of the Regulations. Regulations 22, 23, 25 and 26 still apply, and the exemption is written about the medicinal product form and not about loose material.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Nimetazepam, at Schedule IV paragraph 1. Nimetazepam returned one occurrence in the subsidiary volume and none in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Opium

Legal status: Raw opium is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule I paragraph 1(a), in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. Raw opium is printed between Psilocin and Rolicyclidine, and Concentrate of poppy straw earlier in the same paragraph. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Opium is the one substance here with entries in three schedules at once. Raw opium and Concentrate of poppy straw are in Schedule I, Medicinal opium and Poppy Straw in Schedule II paragraph 1, and Schedule V paragraph 8 exempts a powder of ipecacuanha and opium of 10 per cent opium and 10 per cent ipecacuanha root well mixed with 80 per cent of a powder containing no controlled drug. The Act defines opium, raw opium, medicinal opium, prepared opium, opium poppy and poppy straw separately at section 2(1). The class is left open on purpose. The Act's own classification lives in its Second Schedule and the punishment table in its Third Schedule, and the volume read here is the subsidiary laws volume, whose contents page lists four instruments and none of them is the Act. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 7(4)(c) sets thirty grammes of opium as the presumption quantity, the largest of the five figures in that subsection apart from cannabis, and a person above it is deemed to hold it for the purpose of supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule I is the heaviest of the five. Regulation 5 means a licence of the Minister is what makes production, supply or possession lawful, and the Schedule I heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 and 26, which are the documentation, prescription form, register, destruction and record keeping duties. Regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule I from anything: its exceptions run to Schedules IV and V and to poppy straw only. So there is no ordinary dispensed medicine route for a Schedule I drug in Belize and nothing a traveller carries makes one. Schedule V is the exempted preparations schedule. Regulation 4(1) disapplies the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act for it and regulation 4(2)(b) disapplies the possession prohibition in section 7(1) outright, not merely for a medicinal product form. Only regulations 24 and 25 then apply. A preparation qualifies only if it is inside the printed strength limit for its paragraph.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Raw opium, at Schedule I paragraph 1(a). Opium returned ten occurrences in the subsidiary volume and twenty two in the 1990 Act text, with Raw opium, Medicinal opium and Poppy Straw each appearing as printed entries. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Oxycodone is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the right column between Norpipanone and Oxymorphone. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Oxymorphone is the next line and is a separate entry. The name was confirmed by reading the column in place, because this list is set in two columns and a name broken across a line, as Benzylmorphine and Ecgonine both are, will not be found by a single substring search. Section 4 of the Act sorts every controlled drug into Part I, Part II or Part III of the Second Schedule, which is Class A, Class B and Class C. That Second Schedule sits in the Substantive Laws volume of Chapter 103, which was not among the four instruments in the subsidiary volume read here, so no class is stated. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule II is the prescribing schedule for the strong medicines. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26, one more than Schedule I, and regulation 7 allows administration of a Schedule II drug, regulation 8 its production and supply and regulation 10 its possession, each on the conditions those regulations set. Regulation 15 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 16 what a supplier may do on one. None of that reaches a prescription written outside Belize, and regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule II from the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Oxycodone, at Schedule II paragraph 1. Oxycodone returned one occurrence in the subsidiary volume and Oxymorphone one; neither appears in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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PCP

Legal status: Phencyclidine is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the right column between Phenazocine and Phenomorphan. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Three further arylcyclohexylamines are in Schedule I paragraph 1(a) rather than here: Eticylidine, Rolicyclidine and Tenocyclidine. So the family is split between two schedules, and the row for phencyclidine itself rests on the Schedule II entry alone. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule II is the prescribing schedule for the strong medicines. Its heading brings in regulations 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 26, one more than Schedule I, and regulation 7 allows administration of a Schedule II drug, regulation 8 its production and supply and regulation 10 its possession, each on the conditions those regulations set. Regulation 15 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 16 what a supplier may do on one. None of that reaches a prescription written outside Belize, and regulation 4 does not exempt Schedule II from the import and export prohibition in section 5(1) of the Act.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Phencyclidine, at Schedule II paragraph 1. Phencyclidine returned one occurrence in the subsidiary volume, and Eticylidine, Rolicyclidine and Tenocyclidine one each in Schedule I. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Pink cocaine is a street label and not a substance, so Belize's schedules cannot carry an entry for it and none does. Samples sold under the label are most often a mixture, commonly containing ketamine, MDMA, caffeine or a 2C phenethylamine, and sometimes containing no cocaine at all. Each of those has its own row on this site and its own answer in Belize, and they do not agree with each other: Cocaine is printed in Schedule II paragraph 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, while ketamine returns nothing anywhere in the volume. What a person is carrying is therefore settled by analysis and not by the name on the bag. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Nothing in this row can be given a penalty, because the label does not identify a substance and the schedule that decides class, the Act's Second Schedule, was not in the material read. The practical exposure follows whichever controlled drug the sample turns out to contain, and section 44 of the 1990 Act text provides for evidence by certificate of analyst, which is how the question is settled in a Belize court. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is stated for this row, because a prescribing rule in these Regulations attaches to a schedule and this substance is in none of them. Regulation 4 is the rule a traveller would want, and it operates only on Schedules IV and V: it lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for both, and the section 7(1) possession prohibition for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product and for a Schedule V preparation outright. Whether this substance is reached by the Act's own Second Schedule, and so is a controlled drug taking none of those exemptions, was not settled here.
Documentation: Nothing on this row identifies a single substance, so there is nothing to carry against it. If a prescribed medicine is involved, carry it in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. The Chapter 103 subsidiary volume was searched in full for this row on 22 September 2026 and the label itself appears nowhere in it.

Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103, the Subsidiary Laws volume, Revised Edition 2020, showing the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020, searched in full across the Misuse of Drugs Regulations and their Schedules I to V, the Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations and the Industrial Hemp Regulations · agm.gov.bz · the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text runs from section 1 to partway through section 28 and carries none of its First, Second or Third Schedules, so the list that decides control was not read · read as at 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Poppers

Legal status: Poppers is a street label for a group of alkyl nitrites, and no nitrite of any kind is printed anywhere in the Chapter 103 subsidiary volume. Amyl nitrite, isopropyl nitrite, isobutyl nitrite and the word nitrite itself all return nothing in the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, in the Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations and in the Industrial Hemp Regulations, checked as at 31 December 2020 which is the date the Revised Edition 2020 volume shows the subsidiary laws as at. A product sold as poppers is normally regulated, where it is regulated at all, as a consumer chemical or a medicine rather than as a controlled drug, and no Belize instrument of that kind was read for this row. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: No consequence is stated here. The label names no controlled drug in the volume read, so there is nothing for a penalty provision to attach to, and the Act's Second Schedule which would settle the question for any individual nitrite was not among the four instruments in the subsidiary volume. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is stated for this row, because a prescribing rule in these Regulations attaches to a schedule and this substance is in none of them. Regulation 4 is the rule a traveller would want, and it operates only on Schedules IV and V: it lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for both, and the section 7(1) possession prohibition for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product and for a Schedule V preparation outright. Whether this substance is reached by the Act's own Second Schedule, and so is a controlled drug taking none of those exemptions, was not settled here.
Documentation: Nothing on this row identifies a single substance, so there is nothing to carry against it. If a prescribed medicine is involved, carry it in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. The Chapter 103 subsidiary volume was searched in full for this row on 22 September 2026 and the label itself appears nowhere in it.

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Psilocybin is a Class A controlled drug in Belize, reached through an ester clause rather than by name. Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, prints «Psilocin.» in its right column between «Properidine» and «Racemethorphan.», and Part I paragraph 3 extends the Part to «Any ester or ether of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2, not being a substance for the time being specified in Part II.» PubChem names psilocin 3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]-1H-indol-4-ol and psilocybin [3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]-1H-indol-4-yl] dihydrogen phosphate, which is the phosphate ester of the hydroxyl on psilocin, and psilocybin is not specified in Part II. The United Kingdom statute book uses the same description in its own Class A list, where section 21 of the Drugs Act 2005 inserted «Fungus (of any kind) which contains psilocin or an ester of psilocin.» Schedule II of the Act is headed «Controlled Drugs» and cites section 4, and section 4(1) provides that the expression controlled drugs means any substance or product for the time being specified in Part I, II or III of Schedule II, and that Class A, Class B and Class C drugs are those specified respectively in Parts I, II and III. The word psilocybin itself returns nothing in the Act or the Regulations. What this cell does not settle is the mushroom. Belize Schedule II prints no fungus entry, and whether a fresh or dried mushroom is a «preparation or other product containing» psilocin under Part I paragraph 5 is not stated in the instrument, so the Class A answer here is for the compound. The Act read is Chapter 103 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, whose Schedule II carries the footnote «This Schedule was amended by Statutory Instrument No. 5 of 2014 and Statutory Instrument No 132 of 2020.» The two later amending Acts, No. 25 of 2023 and No. 26 of 2024, were read too: the first amends section 48(4) and the second repeals section 28B, and neither touches section 4, section 7, section 18, section 28 or any Schedule.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. This is a Class A drug, and section 28 gives Schedule III effect for every offence other than drug trafficking. Schedule III punishes possession under section 7(2) of a Class A drug on summary conviction with «5 years or $100,000, or both.» Section 28(2) reads a period in that table as the maximum term and a sum as the maximum fine, and Schedule III prints a summary column only for this offence. Possession with intent to supply is a drug trafficking offence, and section 18(1) punishes drug trafficking and possession for the purpose of drug trafficking without regard to class. On summary conviction the person shall be imprisoned for not less than three years and up to ten years and, in addition, shall be ordered to pay a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars and up to one hundred thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of that value, whichever is greater. On conviction on indictment it is not less than five years and up to fourteen years and, in addition, a fine of not less than fifty thousand dollars and up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value. The proviso that lets a court refrain from the mandatory custodial term for special reasons recorded in writing is written for quantities of heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, and the section 7(4) presumption quantities name the same five drugs, so neither prints a figure for this substance. The Senior Courts' Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, tells courts that in drug trafficking the mandatory minimum custodial sentence and fine should both be imposed unless the proviso in that section applies or in the circumstances of the particular case it is grossly disproportionate. Section 18(2) deems a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises, any other place of education or training, a centre for the rehabilitation of drug addicts, or the immediate vicinity of any of them, to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 28(6) requires a suspended sentence and referral to a drug rehabilitation centre for a first time offender proved to be addicted, in any case other than drug trafficking. These figures are the Revised Edition 2020 text. The 1990 text as UNODC holds it, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, numbered drug trafficking as section 17, punishment as section 27 and the offence of smoking or otherwise using prepared opium, cocaine, heroin or cannabis as section 11, which the Revised Edition prints as section 12, and it printed different trafficking figures, a fine or imprisonment or both, which the Revised Edition, citing Acts 26 of 1992 and 18 of 1998 in the margin of section 18, has replaced with a mandatory term and a fine together.
If prescribed / medical: The Misuse of Drugs Regulations sort controlled drugs into five schedules for their own purposes, and regulation 3 says so in terms: «Schedules I to V shall have effect for the purpose of specifying the controlled drugs to which certain provisions of these Regulations apply.» Schedule I of the Regulations is headed «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» Regulation 5 makes a licence of the Minister what renders production, supply or possession lawful. Regulation 4 lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition only for Schedules IV and V, and the section 7(1) possession prohibition only for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product, a Schedule V drug and poppy straw, so there is no ordinary dispensed medicine route for a Schedule I drug and nothing a traveller carries makes one. Psilocin is printed in Schedule I paragraph 1(a) of the Regulations, and Schedule I paragraph 3 of the Regulations carries its own clause for «Any ester or ether of a substance specified in paragraph 1 or 2.», so the Regulations place psilocybin with psilocin in Schedule I.
Documentation: Nothing a traveller can carry makes possession lawful, because the Regulations give a Schedule I drug no prescription route. Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and section 5(2) of the Act lifts the import prohibition only for a drug excepted by regulations made under section 9 or imported under a licence issued by the Minister. For this row the facts to carry are the printed entry «Psilocin.» in Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 of the Act and the ester clause in paragraph 3. Psilocin returned one occurrence in the Act and one in the Regulations, and psilocybin none in either. Read on 3 October 2026.

Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, Schedule II Part I paragraphs 1 and 3, the entry «Psilocin.», in the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, with sections 4, 7, 18 and 28 and Schedule III of the same volume · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule I paragraphs 1(a) and 3, in the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020 · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2020, S.I. 132 of 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6a67dbac595cd_SI_No._132_of_2020_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment_of_Second_Schedule__Order__2020.pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 25 of 2023, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/64baeb84e3181_Act_No._25_of_2023_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment__Act__2023..pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 26 of 2024, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67fe7a0e1645c_Act_No._26_of_2024_Misuse_of_Drugs_Amendment_Act-2024.pdf · Senior Courts of Belize, Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67991ef1f0520_Practice_Direction_No._7_of_2025_Sentencing_Guidelines_for__Drug_Offences.pdf · for comparison only, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · PubChem, psilocybin CID 10624, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/10624 · PubChem, psilocin CID 4980, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/4980 · United Kingdom, Drugs Act 2005 section 21, https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/17/section/21 · read as at 3 October 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Scopolamine, which the Belize statute book calls hyoscine, is a listed poison in Belize and not a controlled drug. The Chemists and Druggists Act, Chapter 311, prints «Hyoscine» in its Schedule 1 Poisons List under the heading «Alkaloids, the following; their salts, simple or complex», between «Homatropine» and «Hyoscyamine», with nothing entered against it in the column of exemptions, and the same list carries «Belladonna, alkaloids of» and «Solanaceous alkaloids not otherwise included in this List». Scopolamine and hyoscine return nothing in Schedule II of the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, or in the five schedules of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, both read as printed in the Revised Edition 2020 showing the laws as at 31 December 2020 with S.I. 132 of 2020 and the amending Acts No. 25 of 2023 and No. 26 of 2024, so section 4 of that Act does not make it a controlled drug. The Chemists and Druggists Act volume is the Revised Edition 2020, and its only later amendment found, Act No. 39 of 2021, changes a title and nothing else.
Consequences if caught: Because it is not a controlled drug, the possession offences in section 7(1), section 7(2) and section 7(3) of the Act, the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, and the drug trafficking penalties in section 18 do not reach it; the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, numbered those penalties section 17, punishment section 27 and the smoking offence, now section 12, section 11. Schedule III, which section 28 applies to every Act offence other than drug trafficking, attaches no punishment to it, and Regulation 4 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, which lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V and the section 7 possession prohibition for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product and a Schedule V drug, has nothing to lift. Like every answer drawn from Schedule II, this one would change if an Order made after 31 December 2020 and not listed on the portal had added it. The Act read is the Revised Edition 2020; the 1990 text runs from section 1 and stops inside section 28, and carries none of its Schedules. The Chemists and Druggists Act governs who may sell it. Section 2 of the Chemists and Druggists Act defines «poison» as «the articles named and described in the First Schedule» together with any article the Minister adds by Order. Section 22(1) forbids any person to sell, retail, dispense or compound drugs or poisons in a shop unless the shop is under the immediate personal control of a registered chemist and druggist and the sale is made by or under that person's direct charge. Section 23(1) forbids selling any poison to a person under twelve years of age except on the prescription of a registered medical practitioner, and section 23(3) sets a fine of up to two hundred and fifty dollars or imprisonment of up to three months, or both. Section 25(1) requires every container of a poison sold to be labelled with the name of the article, the word «poison» and the seller's name and address, and forbids selling a poison to a person unknown to the seller unless introduced by someone the seller knows; section 25(2) requires a signed entry in the poison book. Section 25(4) punishes a sale otherwise than in accordance with section 25 with a fine of up to fifty dollars for a first offence and two hundred dollars for a second or later one. Every one of those provisions is addressed to a seller. None of sections 22 to 29 of the Chemists and Druggists Act, read as at 31 December 2020 with Act No. 39 of 2021, makes possession by a buyer an offence. Covertly giving scopolamine to another person is a matter for the general criminal law, which was not read for this row.
If prescribed / medical: Section 23(1) of the Chemists and Druggists Act requires a prescription of a registered medical practitioner only for a sale to a person under twelve years of age, and the fuller prescription requirement in section 23(2) names the sulphonamide group of drugs and not hyoscine. So the Act itself requires a registered chemist and druggist's shop, a labelled container and a poison book entry, not a prescription, for an adult buyer. A transdermal motion sickness patch is a medicinal form of hyoscine; whether the medicines registration regime under the Food and Drugs Act adds a prescription requirement was not established, because the Food and Drugs Act and its subsidiary volume were searched and print no prescription list.
Documentation: Carry it in its original labelled packaging, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period if it was prescribed. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry «Hyoscine» in the Chemists and Druggists Act Poisons List. Read on 3 October 2026.

Belize, Chemists and Druggists Act, Chapter 311, Schedule 1 Poisons List, «Hyoscine», with sections 2, 22, 23 and 25, in the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · Chemists and Druggists (Amendment) Act No. 39 of 2021, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6397714576026_Act_No-39-of-2021-Chemists-and-Druggists-Amendment-Act-2021.pdf · Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, Schedule II and sections 4, 7 and 28, Revised Edition 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/639762f72c5a8_Cap_103_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act.pdf · Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedules I to V, Subsidiary Laws Revised Edition 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/63f5161530204_Cap_103_Misuse_of_Drugs_Regulations_1.pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2020, S.I. 132 of 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6a67dbac595cd_SI_No._132_of_2020_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment_of_Second_Schedule__Order__2020.pdf · Belize, Food and Drugs Act, Chapter 291, and its subsidiary volume, Revised Edition 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6397706ec2665_Cap_291_Food_and_Drugs_Act.pdf, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/68a76966a6d6f_Cap_291s_Food_and_Drugs_Act.pdf · read as at 3 October 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Synthetic cannabinoids is a family label covering hundreds of distinct compounds, and Belize's subsidiary volume prints no family entry for them. The nearest printed thing is the Schedule I entry Cannabinol derivatives, and the Act defines that narrowly at section 2(1)(f) as the tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and the 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin. That definition is about cannabinol itself. It does not describe an indole or indazole carboxamide, which is what most compounds sold as synthetic cannabinoids are. No JWH, AM, XLR, AB-, MDMB- or cumyl name appears anywhere in the volume, and neither does the word cannabimimetic. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: No penalty is stated for this row. The individual compounds are unnamed, the one possible route to them is a definition written about a different chemical family, and the Act's Second Schedule, which is where a national class list for such compounds would sit, was not in the material read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is stated for this row, because a prescribing rule in these Regulations attaches to a schedule and this substance is in none of them. Regulation 4 is the rule a traveller would want, and it operates only on Schedules IV and V: it lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for both, and the section 7(1) possession prohibition for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product and for a Schedule V preparation outright. Whether this substance is reached by the Act's own Second Schedule, and so is a controlled drug taking none of those exemptions, was not settled here.
Documentation: Nothing on this row identifies a single substance, so there is nothing to carry against it. If a prescribed medicine is involved, carry it in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. The Chapter 103 subsidiary volume was searched in full for this row on 22 September 2026 and the label itself appears nowhere in it.

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THC-P

Legal status: THC-P is a Class A controlled drug in Belize when it is not contained in cannabis or cannabis resin, as a cannabinol derivative, and the answer rests on reading the words «other Cannabinol deravitives.» on the Schedule II page as an entry of their own. Section 2(1) of the Act defines «cannabinol derivatives» as «the following substances, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin, namely, tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives». Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 prints «Cannabinol, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin» and, in the right column, the words «other Cannabinol deravitives.», misspelt and set inside the entry for morphine methobromide and the other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives, which is how the Revised Edition 2020 page prints it. The Misuse of Drugs Regulations print «Cannabinol derivatives» as a clean entry of its own in Schedule I paragraph 1(a). Cannabis and cannabis resin are in Part II, Class B, so a cannabinoid still contained in cannabis is cannabis and Class B. The 1990 text as UNODC holds it lettered the same definition section 2(1)(f). PubChem names tetrahydrocannabiphorol 3-heptyl-6,6,9-trimethyl-6a,7,8,10a-tetrahydrobenzo[c]chromen-1-ol: the tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol with the pentyl at position three lengthened to a heptyl, which is a 3-alkyl homologue of a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol in the definition's own words. Schedule II of the Act is headed «Controlled Drugs» and cites section 4, and section 4(1) provides that the expression controlled drugs means any substance or product for the time being specified in Part I, II or III of Schedule II, and that Class A, Class B and Class C drugs are those specified respectively in Parts I, II and III. THC-P and tetrahydrocannabiphorol return nothing in the Act or the Regulations, so this is the definition applied to a structure and not a printed name. The Act read is Chapter 103 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, whose Schedule II carries the footnote «This Schedule was amended by Statutory Instrument No. 5 of 2014 and Statutory Instrument No 132 of 2020.» The two later amending Acts, No. 25 of 2023 and No. 26 of 2024, were read too: the first amends section 48(4) and the second repeals section 28B, and neither touches section 4, section 7, section 18, section 28 or any Schedule.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. This is a Class A drug, and section 28 gives Schedule III effect for every offence other than drug trafficking. Schedule III punishes possession under section 7(2) of a Class A drug on summary conviction with «5 years or $100,000, or both.» Section 28(2) reads a period in that table as the maximum term and a sum as the maximum fine, and Schedule III prints a summary column only for this offence. Possession with intent to supply is a drug trafficking offence, and section 18(1) punishes drug trafficking and possession for the purpose of drug trafficking without regard to class. On summary conviction the person shall be imprisoned for not less than three years and up to ten years and, in addition, shall be ordered to pay a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars and up to one hundred thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of that value, whichever is greater. On conviction on indictment it is not less than five years and up to fourteen years and, in addition, a fine of not less than fifty thousand dollars and up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value. The proviso that lets a court refrain from the mandatory custodial term for special reasons recorded in writing is written for quantities of heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, and the section 7(4) presumption quantities name the same five drugs, so neither prints a figure for this substance. The Senior Courts' Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, tells courts that in drug trafficking the mandatory minimum custodial sentence and fine should both be imposed unless the proviso in that section applies or in the circumstances of the particular case it is grossly disproportionate. Section 18(2) deems a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises, any other place of education or training, a centre for the rehabilitation of drug addicts, or the immediate vicinity of any of them, to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 28(6) requires a suspended sentence and referral to a drug rehabilitation centre for a first time offender proved to be addicted, in any case other than drug trafficking. If the compound is still in the plant or its resin, the row is cannabis instead, which is Class B, and section 7(7) of the Act makes possession of not more than ten grammes of cannabis or cannabis resin not unlawful outside the premises of an educational institution. These figures are the Revised Edition 2020 text. The 1990 text as UNODC holds it, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, numbered drug trafficking as section 17, punishment as section 27 and the offence of smoking or otherwise using prepared opium, cocaine, heroin or cannabis as section 11, which the Revised Edition prints as section 12, and it printed different trafficking figures, a fine or imprisonment or both, which the Revised Edition, citing Acts 26 of 1992 and 18 of 1998 in the margin of section 18, has replaced with a mandatory term and a fine together.
If prescribed / medical: The Misuse of Drugs Regulations sort controlled drugs into five schedules for their own purposes, and regulation 3 says so in terms: «Schedules I to V shall have effect for the purpose of specifying the controlled drugs to which certain provisions of these Regulations apply.» Schedule I of the Regulations is headed «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» Regulation 5 makes a licence of the Minister what renders production, supply or possession lawful. Regulation 4 lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition only for Schedules IV and V, and the section 7(1) possession prohibition only for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product, a Schedule V drug and poppy straw, so there is no ordinary dispensed medicine route for a Schedule I drug and nothing a traveller carries makes one. «Cannabinol derivatives» is printed in Schedule I paragraph 1(a) of the Regulations.
Documentation: Nothing a traveller can carry makes possession lawful, because the Regulations give a Schedule I drug no prescription route. Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and section 5(2) of the Act lifts the import prohibition only for a drug excepted by regulations made under section 9 or imported under a licence issued by the Minister. For this row the fact to carry is the definition of cannabinol derivatives in section 2(1) of the Act, which names 3-alkyl homologues. Read on 3 October 2026.

Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, section 2(1), the definition of cannabinol derivatives, and Schedule II Part I paragraph 1, in the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, with sections 4, 7, 18 and 28 and Schedule III of the same volume · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule I paragraph 1(a), «Cannabinol derivatives», in the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020 · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2020, S.I. 132 of 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6a67dbac595cd_SI_No._132_of_2020_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment_of_Second_Schedule__Order__2020.pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 25 of 2023, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/64baeb84e3181_Act_No._25_of_2023_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment__Act__2023..pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 26 of 2024, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67fe7a0e1645c_Act_No._26_of_2024_Misuse_of_Drugs_Amendment_Act-2024.pdf · Senior Courts of Belize, Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67991ef1f0520_Practice_Direction_No._7_of_2025_Sentencing_Guidelines_for__Drug_Offences.pdf · for comparison only, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · PubChem, tetrahydrocannabiphorol CID 6453074, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/6453074 · PubChem, cannabinol CID 2543, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/2543 · read as at 3 October 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Alprazolam is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is the first name in the left column of the paragraph 1 list, above Bromazepam and opposite Ketazolam. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS EXCEPTED FROM THE PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION AND, WHEN IN THE FORM OF A MEDICINAL PRODUCT, POSSESSION AND SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 22, 23, 25 AND 26». The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. For a traveller that schedule is the answer rather than a technicality. Regulation 4(2)(a) provides that section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product, and regulation 4(1) lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. Alprazolam heads a list of thirty nine names that is set alphabetically down two columns, so the entry was read in place at the top of the left column rather than matched on a substring. The exemption above is written about the medicinal product form and about nothing else, so it does not reach loose tablets carried out of their dispensed pack. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught: Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule IV is where regulation 4(2)(a) does its work, and it is the most useful rule in the whole volume for a traveller. Section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product. Regulation 4(1) separately disapplies the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. So a dispensed medicinal product containing a Schedule IV drug is outside both prohibitions on the face of the Regulations. Regulations 22, 23, 25 and 26 still apply, and the exemption is written about the medicinal product form and not about loose material.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Alprazolam, at Schedule IV paragraph 1. Alprazolam returned one occurrence in the subsidiary volume and none in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.

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Not individually verified

43 substances are not individually verified for Belize

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

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed. 1P-LSD, 1-propionyl-lysergic acid diethylamide and propionyl all returned nothing in the subsidiary...
2-FDCK	Not confirmed. 2-FDCK, fluorodeschloroketamine, 2-fluorodeschloroketamine and ketamine all returned nothing in...
25I-NBOMe	Not confirmed. 25I-NBOMe, NBOMe, methoxybenzyl and 2C-I all returned nothing in either file. The nearest printed...
2C-B	Not confirmed. 2C-B, 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine and bromodimethoxy were searched; the only bromo entry in...
2C-E	Not confirmed. 2C-E, 4-ethyl-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine and ethyl-2,5-dimethoxy returned nothing in either file....
2C-I	Not confirmed. 2C-I, 4-iodo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine and iodo were searched; iodo returned nothing anywhere in...
2C-T-7	Not confirmed. 2C-T-7, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-propylthiophenethylamine and propylthio returned nothing in either file; no...
3-MMC	Not confirmed. 3-MMC, methylmethcathinone and mephedrone returned nothing in either file. The nearest printed entry...
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed. 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine and metocin returned nothing in either file. The...
6-APB	Not confirmed. 6-APB, benzofuran, aminopropylbenzofuran and benzofuran ring names returned nothing in either file....
7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)	Not confirmed. 7-hydroxymitragynine, mitragynine, Mitragyna and kratom all returned nothing in either file. There is...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed. Amanita, muscaria, muscimol and ibotenic acid returned nothing in either file. The nearest printed...
Ayahuasca	Not confirmed. Ayahuasca, Banisteriopsis, Psychotria, harmine and harmaline returned nothing in either file. The...
Buprenorphine	Not confirmed. Buprenorphine and the stem buprenorphin returned nothing in either file, checked with a case...
Caffeine	Not confirmed. Caffeine and the stem caffein returned nothing in either file. There is no near entry. The volume...
CBD	Not confirmed. Cannabidiol and CBD returned nothing in either file; Cannabinol, which is a different compound...
Etizolam	Not confirmed. Etizolam and thienodiazepine returned nothing in either file; the word benzodiazepine does not appear...
Gabapentin	Not confirmed. Gabapentin returned nothing in either file. There is no near entry. The volume prints no...
GBL	Not confirmed. GBL, gamma-butyrolactone and butyrolactone returned nothing in either file. There is no near entry....
GHB	Not confirmed. GHB, gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, hydroxybutyrate and oxybate returned nothing in either file. There is...
HHC	Not confirmed. HHC and hexahydrocannabinol returned nothing in either file. The nearest printed entry is Cannabinol...
Ketamine	Not confirmed. Ketamine returned nothing in either file. The only occurrences of the letters etamine in the...
Khat	Not confirmed. Khat, qat and Catha edulis returned nothing in either file; Cathinone returned one occurrence and...
Kratom	Not confirmed. Kratom, Mitragyna and mitragynine returned nothing in either file. There is no near entry. No...
MDMA	Not confirmed. MDMA and methylenedioxymethamphetamine returned nothing in either file; the only methylenedioxy word...
MDPV	Not confirmed. MDPV and methylenedioxypyrovalerone returned nothing in either file; the volume prints Pyrovalorone...
Memantine	Not confirmed. Memantine and adamantane returned nothing in either file. There is no near entry. The volume prints...
Mephedrone (4-MMC)	Not confirmed. Mephedrone and 4-methylmethcathinone returned nothing in either file. The nearest printed entry is...
Methylone	Not confirmed. Methylone and methylenedioxymethcathinone returned nothing in either file. The nearest printed entry...
Mitragynine	Not confirmed. Mitragynine, Mitragyna and kratom returned nothing in either file. There is no near entry. No...
Modafinil	Not confirmed. Modafinil and adrafinil returned nothing in either file. The nearest printed entries in kind are the...
MXE	Not confirmed. MXE, methoxetamine and methoxetamine spelling variants returned nothing in either file, and neither...
Nicotine	Not confirmed. Nicotine and tobacco returned nothing in either file. There is no near entry, and there would not be...
Nitrous Oxide	Not confirmed. Nitrous oxide and nitrous returned nothing in either file. There is no near entry. The volume prints...
Peyote	Not confirmed. Peyote, Lophophora, Lophophora williamsii and San Pedro returned nothing in either file; Mescaline...
Phenibut	Not confirmed. Phenibut and aminophenylbutyric acid returned nothing in either file. There is no near entry. The...
Pregabalin	Not confirmed. Pregabalin returned nothing in either file. There is no near entry, and the sibling compound...
Quetiapine	Not confirmed. Quetiapine returned nothing in either file. There is no near entry. The volume prints no...
Salvia divinorum	Not confirmed. Salvia, Salvia divinorum, divinorum and salvinorin returned nothing in either file. There is no near...
Tobacco	Not confirmed. Tobacco and Nicotiana returned nothing in either file. There is no near entry, and there would not be...
Tramadol	Not confirmed. Tramadol returned nothing in either file. The nearest printed entries are the synthetic opioids in...
Xylazine	Not confirmed. Xylazine returned nothing in either file. There is no near entry. The volume prints no veterinary...
Zolpidem	Not confirmed. Zolpidem and imidazopyridine returned nothing in either file. The nearest printed entries are the...

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