Legal status in British Virgin Islands (UK)

Per-substance legal status for British Virgin Islands (UK), 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.

43 confirmed substances45 not individually verifiedLast updated October 4, 2026

Confirmed legal status

2C-B

Legal status: Controlled under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: 2C-B is controlled in the British Virgin Islands under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

British Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised Edition) · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 · bvifsc.vg · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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2C-E

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. 2C-E, 4-ethyl-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, is not named, but it is phenethylamine substituted in the ring with one alkyl and two alkoxy groups, and so falls within paragraph 1(c) of Part I, which reaches "any compound (not being methoxyphenamine or a compound for the time being specified in subparagraph (a) above) structurally derived from phenethylamine, an N-alkylphenethylamine" and the other parents it lists "by substitution in the ring to any extent with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy or halide substituents, whether or not further substituted in the ring by one or more other univalent substituents".
Consequences if caught: As a Class A drug, 2C-E is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to 2C-E.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying 2C-E, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: 2C-E is reached through the generic clause, not a named entry. Its parent is phenethylamine itself, the first parent the clause lists, so the printing defect that drops the Greek alpha from the later parents does not affect it. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 16 and 28 and Schedules 2 and 3, read on 3 October 2026 · laws.gov.vg · the same file, identical by sha256, at the Financial Services Commission · bvifsc.vg · the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013, compared word by word · bvifsc.vg · the laws.gov.vg page for the Act and its subsidiary legislation · laws.gov.vg · S.I. 2022 No. 111, proclamation for the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act, 2005 · laws.gov.vg · Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act, 2020, bill as gazetted · laws.gov.vg · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020, listed on laws.gov.vg as a bill only · laws.gov.vg · Updated October 4, 2026

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2C-I

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. 2C-I, 4-iodo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, is not named, but it is phenethylamine substituted in the ring with a halide and two alkoxy groups, and so falls within paragraph 1(c) of Part I, which reaches "any compound (not being methoxyphenamine or a compound for the time being specified in subparagraph (a) above) structurally derived from phenethylamine, an N-alkylphenethylamine" and the other parents it lists "by substitution in the ring to any extent with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy or halide substituents, whether or not further substituted in the ring by one or more other univalent substituents".
Consequences if caught: As a Class A drug, 2C-I is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to 2C-I.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying 2C-I, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: 2C-I is reached through the generic clause, not a named entry; iodine is a halide, one of the four kinds of ring substituent the clause names, and its parent is phenethylamine itself. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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2C-T-7

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. 2C-T-7, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-propylthiophenethylamine, is not named, but it is phenethylamine substituted in the ring with two alkoxy groups and further substituted in the ring by a propylthio group, and so falls within paragraph 1(c) of Part I, which reaches "any compound (not being methoxyphenamine or a compound for the time being specified in subparagraph (a) above) structurally derived from phenethylamine, an N-alkylphenethylamine" and the other parents it lists "by substitution in the ring to any extent with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy or halide substituents, whether or not further substituted in the ring by one or more other univalent substituents".
Consequences if caught: As a Class A drug, 2C-T-7 is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to 2C-T-7.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying 2C-T-7, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: 2C-T-7 is reached through the generic clause. The propylthio group is not one of the four named kinds of substituent, so the cell relies on the clause's closing words, "whether or not further substituted in the ring by one or more other univalent substituents", after the two methoxy groups qualify it. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. 4-AcO-DMT is the acetic acid ester of psilocin, O-acetylpsilocin. Part I of Schedule 2 names "Psilocin", and paragraph 3 of Part I places in Class A "An ester or ether of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2 above not being a substance for the time being specified in Part II of this Schedule".
Consequences if caught: As a Class A drug, 4-AcO-DMT is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to 4-AcO-DMT.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying 4-AcO-DMT, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: 4-AcO-DMT is not named; the cell rests on paragraph 3, the ester and ether clause, applied to the named entry "Psilocin". No Part II entry names it, so the exception in paragraph 3 does not apply. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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4-HO-MET

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, is not named, but paragraph 1(b) of Part I reaches "any compound (not being a compound for the time being specified in subparagraph (a) above) structurally derived from tryptamine or from a ringhydroxy tryptamine by substitution at the nitrogen atom of the sidechain with one or more alkyl substituents but no other substituent", and 4-HO-MET is 4-hydroxytryptamine with a methyl and an ethyl group on that nitrogen.
Consequences if caught: As a Class A drug, 4-HO-MET is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to 4-HO-MET.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying 4-HO-MET, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: 4-HO-MET is reached through paragraph 1(b), the tryptamine generic, which is the same clause that reaches the N,N-dialkyl tryptamines not named in Part I. Psilocin, its N,N-dimethyl neighbour, is named. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. 5-MeO-DMT is the methyl ether of bufotenine, which is 5-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine. Part I of Schedule 2 names "Bufotenine", and paragraph 3 of Part I places in Class A "An ester or ether of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2 above not being a substance for the time being specified in Part II of this Schedule".
Consequences if caught: As a Class A drug, 5-MeO-DMT is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to 5-MeO-DMT.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying 5-MeO-DMT, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: 5-MeO-DMT is not named. Paragraph 1(b), the tryptamine generic, reaches only substitution at the side chain nitrogen of tryptamine or a ring hydroxy tryptamine, and a methoxy group is not a hydroxy group, so the cell rests instead on paragraph 3 applied to "Bufotenine". Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Adderall

Legal status: Controlled as a Class B drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Adderall is a brand of mixed amphetamine salts and is not named. Part II of Schedule 2 names "Amphetamine"; paragraph 2 of Part II adds "Any stereoisomeric form", which brings in dextroamphetamine, paragraph 3 adds "Any salt", and paragraph 4 adds "Any preparation or other product containing" them, which reaches the tablets and capsules.
Consequences if caught: As a Class B drug, Adderall is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to Adderall.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying Adderall, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: The brand name appears nowhere in the Act. The cell rests on the Part II entry "Amphetamine" and paragraphs 2 to 4 of Part II, which carry it to the salts and finished products. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Controlled as a Class B drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part II of Schedule 2 names "Amphetamine", and paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Part II add its stereoisomers, salts and any preparation or other product containing it. Paragraph 6 of Part I moves into Class A "Any preparation designed for administration by injection" which includes a Part II substance.
Consequences if caught: As a Class B drug, amphetamine is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to amphetamine.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying amphetamine, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part II of Schedule 2 names "Amphetamine" with "Methylamphetamine" and "Methylphenidate" beside it; Part III separately names "N-Ethylamphetamine" in Class C. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A preparation under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178 when the brew contains DMT. Ayahuasca is not named. Part I of Schedule 2 names "N, N-Dimethyltryptamine", and paragraph 5 of Part I places in Class A "Any preparation or other product containing a substance or product for the time being specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 4 above". The plants used to make it are not named, and the harmala alkaloids are not listed.
Consequences if caught: Where the brew contains DMT it is a Class A preparation, and it is then reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences; a brew without DMT is not a controlled drug under the Act as read. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to ayahuasca.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying ayahuasca, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: The cell treats a prepared brew as a preparation containing DMT under paragraph 5 of Part I. It does not treat the raw plants as listed: Part I names plants only where it means to, as with "Coca leaf", and whether paragraph 5 reaches an unprepared leaf or vine was not established. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Barbiturates

Legal status: Controlled as Class B drugs under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178, except that paragraph 6 of Part I makes Class A «Any preparation designed for administration by injection which includes a substance or product for the time being specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 3 of Part II» of Schedule 2, which takes in an injectable barbiturate. Paragraph 1(b) of Part II of Schedule 2 lists "any 5, 5 disubstituted barbituric acid", and paragraph 1(a) names "Methylphenobarbitone"; paragraphs 3 and 4 of Part II add their salts and any preparation or other product containing them.
Consequences if caught: As a Class B drug, barbiturates is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to barbiturates.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying barbiturates, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Barbiturates are reached as a class by the words "any 5, 5 disubstituted barbituric acid", which takes in phenobarbital, butalbital and secobarbital without naming them, and by the named entry "Methylphenobarbitone". Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Benzodiazepines is controlled in the British Virgin Islands under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

British Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised Edition) · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 · bvifsc.vg · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Controlled as a Class C drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part III of Schedule 2 names "Buprenorphine", and paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Part III add its stereoisomers, salts and any preparation or other product containing it.
Consequences if caught: As a Class C drug, buprenorphine is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 2 years and $75,000 on summary conviction and 5 years and $100,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to buprenorphine.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying buprenorphine, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part III names "Buprenorphine" between "Bromazepam" and "Camazepam", in Class C although most other opioids in the Act are Class A. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Cannabinol

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part I of Schedule 2 names "Cannabinol, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin". Where it is contained in cannabis or cannabis resin, it falls with them in Part II as a Class B drug.
Consequences if caught: Whether it is Class A cannabinol or, contained in cannabis, falls with cannabis in Class B, cannabinol is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences, and the penalties below are the same for both classes. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3)(e) presumes possession for supply above "50 grammes of cannabis or cannabis resin", so where cannabinol is contained in cannabis or cannabis resin that presumption applies by the weight of the cannabis or resin; section 7(3) names no quantity for cannabinol held apart from cannabis.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying cannabinol, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part I lists "Cannabinol, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin" and, next to it, "Cannabinol derivatives". Part II lists "Cannabis and cannabis resin". For simple possession and trafficking the penalties for Class A and Class B are the same under Schedule 3 and section 16(1). Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Cannabis is controlled under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Cannabis is controlled in the British Virgin Islands under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act; the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated licensing framework for medical, research and religious use, while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Cannabis is available only through the regulated licensing framework; carry any authorization and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

British Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised Edition) · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 · bvifsc.vg · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Controlled as a Class C drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part III of Schedule 2 names "Cathinone", and paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Part III add its stereoisomers, salts and any preparation or other product containing it.
Consequences if caught: As a Class C drug, cathinone is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 2 years and $75,000 on summary conviction and 5 years and $100,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to cathinone.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying cathinone, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part III names "Cathinone" beside "Cathine". The khat plant that contains both is not named. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Controlled as a Class C drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part III of Schedule 2 names "Clonazepam", and paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Part III add its stereoisomers, salts and any preparation or other product containing it.
Consequences if caught: As a Class C drug, clonazepam is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 2 years and $75,000 on summary conviction and 5 years and $100,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to clonazepam.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying clonazepam, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part III names "Clonazepam" between "Clobazam" and "Clorazepic acid". Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Cocaine is controlled in the British Virgin Islands under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

British Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised Edition) · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 · bvifsc.vg · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Controlled as a Class B drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part II of Schedule 2 names "Codeine", and paragraph 4 of Part II adds any preparation or other product containing it, which reaches combination painkillers and cough syrups. Paragraph 6 of Part I moves into Class A "Any preparation designed for administration by injection" which includes it.
Consequences if caught: As a Class B drug, codeine is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to codeine.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying codeine, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part II names "Codeine" with "Dihydrocodeine", "Acetyldihydrocodeine", "Norcodeine" and "Pholcodine". The Act as read carries no exemption for low strength codeine preparations. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Crack is cocaine in its base form, and Part I of Schedule 2 names "Cocaine", with "Coca leaf" and "Ecgonine, and any derivative of ecgonine which is convertible to ecgonine or to cocaine"; paragraphs 4 and 5 of Part I add its salts and any preparation or product containing it.
Consequences if caught: As a Class A drug, crack cocaine is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3)(b) deems a person found with more than "5 grammes of cocaine" to possess it for supply in contravention of section 6(2)(b), or for drug trafficking in contravention of section 6(2)(c), unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying crack cocaine, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Schedule 2 does not use the word crack; the cell rests on the Part I entry "Cocaine". Section 11(c) also makes it an offence to possess pipes or utensils used, or intended to be used, for smoking a controlled drug. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Controlled under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178, as a Class A drug or as cannabis. Part IV of Schedule 2 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", and Part I lists "Cannabinol derivatives" in Class A. Delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol is a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol. Where it is contained in cannabis, it falls with cannabis in Part II, Class B, and section 2 defines cannabis to include "in whatever form, its preparations, derivatives and similar synthetic preparations". Which class a given product falls in was not settled.
Consequences if caught: Whether a product is a Class A cannabinol derivative or falls with cannabis in Class B, delta-8-THC is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences, and the penalties below are the same for both classes. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3)(e) presumes possession for supply above "50 grammes of cannabis or cannabis resin", so where delta-8-THC is contained in cannabis or cannabis resin that presumption applies by the weight of the cannabis or resin; section 7(3) names no quantity for delta-8-THC held apart from cannabis.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying delta-8-THC, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Two routes reach delta-8-THC and the Act does not say which governs a hemp-derived product: the Part IV definition of cannabinol derivatives, Class A, and the section 2 definition of cannabis, Class B. Both lead to the same possession and trafficking penalties under Schedule 3 and section 16(1). Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Diazepam

Legal status: Controlled as a Class C drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part III of Schedule 2 names "Diazepam", and paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Part III add its stereoisomers, salts and any preparation or other product containing it.
Consequences if caught: As a Class C drug, diazepam is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 2 years and $75,000 on summary conviction and 5 years and $100,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to diazepam.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying diazepam, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part III names "Diazepam" between "Dextropropoxyphene" and "Diethylpropion". Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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DMT

Legal status: Controlled under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: DMT is controlled in the British Virgin Islands under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

British Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised Edition) · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 · bvifsc.vg · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Fentanyl is controlled in the British Virgin Islands under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

British Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised Edition) · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 · bvifsc.vg · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: Controlled under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: GHB is controlled in the British Virgin Islands under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

British Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised Edition) · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 · bvifsc.vg · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Controlled under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Heroin is controlled in the British Virgin Islands under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

British Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised Edition) · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 · bvifsc.vg · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part I of Schedule 2 names "Hydrocodone", and paragraphs 4 and 5 of Part I add its salts and any preparation or other product containing it.
Consequences if caught: As a Class A drug, hydrocodone is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to hydrocodone.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying hydrocodone, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part I of Schedule 2 names "Hydrocodone" between "Furethidine" and "Hydromorphinol", and also names "Dihydrocodeinone O-carboxymethyloxime". Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Controlled as a Class C drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part III of Schedule 2 names "Lorazepam", and paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Part III add its stereoisomers, salts and any preparation or other product containing it.
Consequences if caught: As a Class C drug, lorazepam is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 2 years and $75,000 on summary conviction and 5 years and $100,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to lorazepam.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying lorazepam, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part III names "Lorazepam" with "Lormetazepam" listed separately. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Lysergic acid amide is lysergamide, and Part I of Schedule 2 names "Lysergamide" as a separate entry above "Lysergide and other N-alkyl derivative of lysergamide". The seeds of morning glory and Hawaiian baby woodrose are not named, and whether paragraph 5 of Part I, "Any preparation or other product containing" a listed substance, reaches untreated seeds was not established.
Consequences if caught: As a Class A drug, LSA is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to LSA.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying LSA, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part I of Schedule 2 lists "Lysergamide" by name. No entry names a plant or seed that contains it, while the same Part names "Coca leaf" and opium expressly, so the seeds are not treated here as listed. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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LSD

Legal status: Controlled under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: LSD is controlled in the British Virgin Islands under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

British Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised Edition) · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 · bvifsc.vg · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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MDMA

Legal status: Controlled under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: MDMA is controlled in the British Virgin Islands under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

British Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised Edition) · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 · bvifsc.vg · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Controlled under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Mescaline is controlled in the British Virgin Islands under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

British Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised Edition) · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 · bvifsc.vg · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part I of Schedule 2 names "Methadone", and paragraphs 4 and 5 of Part I add its salts and any preparation or other product containing it.
Consequences if caught: As a Class A drug, methadone is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to methadone.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying methadone, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part I of Schedule 2 names "Methadone" next to "Methadyl acetate", and separately names its precursor "4-Cyano-2-dimethylamino-4, 4-diphenylbutane". Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Controlled under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Methamphetamine is controlled in the British Virgin Islands under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

British Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised Edition) · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 · bvifsc.vg · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Controlled as a Class B drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part II of Schedule 2 names "Methaqualone", and also its analogue "Mecloqualone"; paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Part II add stereoisomers, salts and preparations.
Consequences if caught: As a Class B drug, methaqualone is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to methaqualone.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying methaqualone, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part II names "Methaqualone" at the head of its second column, with "Mecloqualone" listed separately. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Controlled as a Class B drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part II of Schedule 2 names "Methylphenidate", and paragraphs 3 and 4 of Part II add its salts and any preparation or other product containing it, which reaches prescription tablets.
Consequences if caught: As a Class B drug, methylphenidate is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to methylphenidate.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying methylphenidate, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part II names "Methylphenidate" between "Methylamphetamine" and "Methylphenobarbitone". Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Controlled as a Class C drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part III of Schedule 2 names "Nimetazepam", and paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Part III add its stereoisomers, salts and any preparation or other product containing it.
Consequences if caught: As a Class C drug, nimetazepam is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 2 years and $75,000 on summary conviction and 5 years and $100,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to nimetazepam.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying nimetazepam, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part III names "Nimetazepam" between "Methyprylone" and "Nitrazepam". Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Opium

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part I of Schedule 2 names "Opium, whether raw, prepared or medicinal", and Part IV defines "raw opium" and "medicinal opium" and the opium poppy as "the plant of the species Papaver somniferum L".
Consequences if caught: As a Class A drug, opium is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3)(c) deems a person found with more than "55 grammes of opium" to possess it for supply in contravention of section 6(2)(b), or for drug trafficking in contravention of section 6(2)(c), unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying opium, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part I of Schedule 2 names "Opium, whether raw, prepared or medicinal". Section 2 defines "prepared opium" as "opium prepared for smoking and includes dross and any other residues remaining after opium has been smoked", and section 10(c) and (d) make it an offence for an occupier knowingly to permit preparing opium for smoking or smoking prepared opium on premises. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part I of Schedule 2 names "Oxycodone", and paragraphs 4 and 5 of Part I add its salts and any preparation or other product containing it, which includes prescription tablets.
Consequences if caught: As a Class A drug, oxycodone is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to oxycodone.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying oxycodone, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part I of Schedule 2 names "Oxycodone" between "Opium, whether raw, prepared or medicinal" and "Oxymorphone". Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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PCP

Legal status: Controlled under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: PCP is controlled in the British Virgin Islands under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

British Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised Edition) · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 · bvifsc.vg · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Psilocybin is controlled in the British Virgin Islands under the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the British Virgin Islands, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the BVI Financial Services Commission legislation portal (bvifsc.vg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 establishes a regulated cannabis-licensing framework (medical, research and religious use), while unlicensed recreational possession, sale and cultivation remain restricted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

British Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised Edition) · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 · bvifsc.vg · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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THC-P

Legal status: Controlled under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178, as a Class A drug or as cannabis. THC-P, tetrahydrocannabiphorol, is the heptyl homologue of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol at the 3-position, and Part IV of Schedule 2 defines "cannabinol derivatives" to include "3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives", "except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin"; Part I lists "Cannabinol derivatives" in Class A. Where it is contained in cannabis, it falls with cannabis in Part II, Class B.
Consequences if caught: Whether a product is a Class A cannabinol derivative or falls with cannabis in Class B, THC-P is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences, and the penalties below are the same for both classes. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3)(e) presumes possession for supply above "50 grammes of cannabis or cannabis resin", so where THC-P is contained in cannabis or cannabis resin that presumption applies by the weight of the cannabis or resin; section 7(3) names no quantity for THC-P held apart from cannabis.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying THC-P, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: THC-P is not named. The cell rests on the words "3-alkyl homologues" in the Part IV definition; the heptyl chain sits where delta-9-THC carries its pentyl chain. Class A and Class B carry the same possession and trafficking penalties under Schedule 3 and section 16(1). Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Controlled as a Class C drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part III of Schedule 2 names "Alprazolam", and paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Part III add its stereoisomers, salts and any preparation or other product containing it.
Consequences if caught: As a Class C drug, alprazolam is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 2 years and $75,000 on summary conviction and 5 years and $100,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to alprazolam.
If prescribed / medical: No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying alprazolam, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation: Part III names "Alprazolam" first in its alphabetical list of Class C substances, ahead of "Benzphetamine" and "Bromazepam". Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.

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Not individually verified

45 substances are not individually verified for British Virgin Islands (UK)

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 British Virgin Islands (UK)’s drug authority or your embassy.

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
2-FDCK	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
25I-NBOMe	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
3-MMC	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
6-APB	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Alcohol	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Amyl Nitrite	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Caffeine	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
CBD	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
DOM	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
DXM	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Ephedrine	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Etizolam	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Gabapentin	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
GBL	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
HHC	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Ketamine	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Khat	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Kratom	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
MDA	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
MDPV	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Memantine	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Mephedrone (4-MMC)	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Methylone	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Mitragynine	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Modafinil	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Morphine	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
MXE	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Nicotine	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Nitrous Oxide	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Peyote	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Phenibut	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Pink Cocaine / Tusi	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Poppers	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Pregabalin	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Quetiapine	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Salvia divinorum	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Tobacco	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Tramadol	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Xylazine	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...
Zolpidem	Not confirmed, the British Virgin Islands' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific...

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