Are Benzodiazepines legal in Montenegro?

Legal status

Controlled in Montenegro member by member, and Montenegro's own Prilog names the members, so this is a finding rather than a deferral. The member by member check was run against the Montenegrin schedule and not merely against the substances this table happens to carry, and it returned six printed names: «Alprazolam | CAS 28981-97-7», «Klonazepam | CAS 1622-61-3», «Diazepam | CAS 439-14-5», «Etizolam | CAS 40054-69-1», «Lorazepam | CAS 846-49-1» and «Nimetazepam | CAS 2011-67-8». The class word itself has no printed row, so what carries the control is the molecule and never the family label, and the specific product has to be identified before any answer is given. One thing in this document argues against itself and is recorded rather than smoothed over: the class row's own search record says a search for «benzodiazepini; alprazolam; diazepam» returned no accepted entry, while six rows in the same table quote printed Prilog entries, two of them for those very names. A printed entry is evidence of a schedule and a search record is evidence that somebody looked, so the printed entries govern here and the search record is reported as the contradiction it is. One further caution: the etizolam entry is a thieno analogue printed in its own right rather than a true benzodiazepine, and the zolpidem entry in this table is an imidazopyridine, so neither is authority for the family as a family. The list is not the criminal code's to move. Član 4 of the Zakon o sprječavanju zloupotrebe droga gives it to the state administration body responsible for health and requires publication in the official gazette: «Spisak droga donosi organ državne uprave nadležan za poslove zdravlja... Spisak droga se objavljuje u Službenom listu Crne Gore.» The version read is the Prilog as those tables stand after the 54/2015 amendment, read on 20 September 2026, and because Član 4 leaves the list with the health administration this does not rule out a later amendment.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Montenegro's criminal code carries no death penalty and the dossier records none. The ceiling it records is fifteen years under Article 300 of the Krivični zakonik, the aggravated drug offence, read with the Code's imprisonment rules, and that is the only criminal article this reading names. Beyond that the exposure is member specific and no member is resolved by this cell, because six molecules with six different locators sit behind the label. A proved member with a printed Prilog row meets Article 300 in the ordinary way, and which member is in front of you is the whole of the question. No numerical lawful personal use threshold was found in the controlling Act or in the list, so there is no stated weight below which the question changes, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not described here as a general lawful possession safe harbour. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Montenegro entry rather than re-derived from the Code in this pass: production, distribution or trafficking are reported at roughly two to fifteen years, the source given there being the United States State Department narcotics report, which also records that the individual paragraph ranges of Article 300(1) to (5) are not pinned in the sources it cites. The Article 300(6) offence of unlawfully making, acquiring, possessing, transporting or supplying equipment, material or substances knowing they are intended for narcotics production is reported at six months to five years. An addiction driven offender may receive mandatory treatment as a security measure to a maximum of three years, alongside or in place of imprisonment, and possession is reported as handled inside Article 300 with treatment diversion available. A foreigner faces expulsion for one to ten years or permanently. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty band and none of them is a quantity threshold, which is the separate point made above. These bands describe the Article 300 offence that this row's placement in the list brings into play. What this row rests on is six printed Prilog rows and no printed row for the class word.

If prescribed or medical

Montenegro's traveller rule in this reading is a country level one and not a substance level one: scheduled medicines and other prescription products remain subject to the Zakon o ljekovima and to prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street label is resolved through proved active ingredients. The placement to attach on this row is not one placement but six printed entries, so the medicine has to be identified by its active ingredient before the traveller rule can be applied to it, and the class name will not do that work. The dossier carries no prescription column at all, which was confirmed by tools/check-dossier.py, so no per substance medical route was established here: no import permit route, no personal quantity ceiling and no certificate requirement was read for this row, and none has been invented for it. The reading behind this row is six printed Prilog rows and no printed row for the class word.

Documentation

Carry no document on the strength of the class name. Identify the molecule printed on the dispensing label and read it against the Prilog entry that names it: the six read here were «Alprazolam | CAS 28981-97-7», «Klonazepam | CAS 1622-61-3», «Diazepam | CAS 439-14-5», «Etizolam | CAS 40054-69-1», «Lorazepam | CAS 846-49-1» and «Nimetazepam | CAS 2011-67-8», on 20 September 2026. The consolidated control Act was read at https://www.gov.me/en/documents/afd3651b-7fdd-43b9-b324-6e1e1a1a36cb and the Ministry schedule at https://www.gov.me/dokumenta/5aa4ae6f-0e4b-4f30-8c5e-75f9e413b019 on 20 September 2026. No express open reuse licence was located on either page, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced, with attribution and a direct link. The record this advice rests on is six printed Prilog rows and no printed row for the class word.

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