Legality
Caffeine legal status by country
Countries where the legal status of Caffeine has been confirmed against a primary source. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.
Confirmed legal status
Each row links to the full detail for Caffeine in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- AlbaniaCaffeine is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë...
- AndorraNot a controlled drug in Andorra. Caffeine is not named in the UN edition of the 1961 Single Convention...
- Antigua and BarbudaNot listed, and this Act does not reach it at all. This is a positive finding of absence and not a deferral....
- ArgentinaNot scheduled as an estupefaciente. Every one of the 886 numbered rows of the current Anexo I was searched by...
- ArmeniaGoverned in Armenia through food safety and labelling legislation rather than through the narcotics annex,...
- AustraliaLegal as food and drink; scheduled only in concentrated or high dose forms. F2026L01327 places caffeine «for...
- AustriaNot a designated drug in Austria, and the reason is a finding rather than a silence. Caffeine is not...
- BahamasNot listed in the Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act (Application) Order, 1994 (S.I. 77 of 1994) as those...
- BahrainNot a controlled drug on the text read. Caffeine is not named in any of the twelve tables annexed to...
- BangladeshCaffeine is named last but one in Class 'kha' at serial 4 of the First Schedule, and the entry is not...
- BarbadosNot a controlled drug under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act in Barbados, and other Barbados law...
- BelarusCaffeine is regulated in Belarus, and it is regulated somewhere other than the narcotics annexes. The route...
- BelgiumCaffeine is not reached by the Belgian controlled drug lists on the text checked here. The search found no...
- Bosnia and HerzegovinaNot a controlled drug under the list attached to the 2006 Law, as consolidated through Official Gazette 56/26...
- BruneiNot a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to...
- BulgariaNot listed. Caffeine is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за...
- CanadaNot a controlled drug. Caffeine is not named in any schedule of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and...
- ChileControlled as a chemical, not as a drug. The placement is established: this substance lies outside both...
- ColombiaNot listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for cafeína or 1,3,7-trimetilxantina...
- Costa RicaNot handled through the drug control model. Article 1 of Ley 7786, as integrally reformed by Ley 8204, fixes...
- CroatiaCaffeine is not named in the Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te tvari...
- CubaNot controlled in Cuba as an illicit drug. Caffeine is not a «droga ilícita» for the purposes of articles 235...
- CzechiaNot listed. Caffeine is not printed as an entry in any of the eight seznamy of nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb....
- DenmarkNot a euphoriant under the Danish euphoriants legislation: it is not named in liste A, B, C, D or E of...
- DominicaCaffeine is not a controlled drug under this Act. It is printed nowhere in Parts I, II or III, which were...
- Dominican RepublicNot listed. Caffeine has no entry. It is a methylxanthine, and no xanthine appears anywhere in the five...
- EgyptNot listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Caffeine is not...
- EstoniaCaffeine is not listed in the Estonian narcotic and psychotropic schedule. No entry for caffeine was located...
- FinlandNot a narcotic in Finland. Caffeine is not named in any annex of valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina...
- FranceCaffeine is not carried by either French closed list. The dossier's finding for this row is recorded in the...
- GeorgiaCaffeine is not carried on Georgia's narcotics lists and it is not therefore unregulated. The dossier records...
- GermanyCaffeine is absent from the German narcotics lists, and the dossier records the absence as a search that was...
- GhanaCaffeine is not a controlled drug under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019): it is not named...
- GreeceNot listed in the Greek narcotics tables. Caffeine is printed at no entry of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Α, Β, Γ or Δ in the...
- GrenadaNot listed in the First Schedule to the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Chapter 84A, as that...
- GuyanaNot assigned a controlled drug offence in Guyana. The scope search recorded for this row against the First...
- HondurasNot a controlled drug for the purposes of Articles 311 to 313 of the Código Penal. Caffeine, searched also as...
- Hong KongNot a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134). Controlled as a medicine under the...
- HungaryNot listed. Caffeine is not a named entry of the K1 or K2 jegyzék in the 1. melléklet, of the P1, P2, P3 or...
- IcelandNot a controlled substance in Iceland's narcotics list. Caffeine is not named in Fylgiskjal I, searched as...
- IndiaNo Indian placement was found for it: it is not named in the Act's Schedule (list of psychotropic...
- IndonesiaNot a narkotika and not a psikotropika under Indonesia's Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika...
- IranCaffeine has no entry of its own in Iran’s recovered drug instruments: it is not named in the Anti-Narcotics...
- IraqNot listed as at 22 September 2026. Caffeine appears nowhere in the ten schedules under any Latin or Arabic...
- IrelandNot a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: No controlled-drug schedule; 2010...
- ItalyNot scheduled. A search of the closed tables I to IV and the table of medicinal products under article 14 of...
- JamaicaCaffeine is not among the drugs to which Part IV of the Dangerous Drugs Act applies. The scope search...
- JapanCaffeine is not a controlled substance in Japan. What governs it is the line between food and medicine. The...
- JordanCaffeine is outside the Law No. 23 of 2016 scheduling question altogether, and the schedule search that...
- KazakhstanCaffeine is not controlled by Kazakhstan's Resolution No. 470, on the version of the lists read for this row....
- KenyaNot a controlled drug under Cap. 245 on the text read: it is not named in the First Schedule of narcotic...
- KuwaitNot a controlled narcotic or psychotropic substance in Kuwait. Caffeine is in no annexed table of Decree Law...
- LatviaCaffeine is not listed in the Latvian controlled substances annex. Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force...
- LebanonNot a controlled substance under Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on the version read: it is not named in the four...
- LithuaniaCaffeine is not listed in the Lithuanian narcotic and psychotropic lists. Health Minister Order No. 5 is the...
- MacauNot listed in Macau. Caffeine is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law...
- MalaysiaCaffeine is a poison under the Poisons Act 1952, listed in the Poisons List with «All preparations» against...
- MaltaNeither Maltese drug ordinance governs caffeine. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from...
- MexicoCaffeine is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General...
- MoldovaNot in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Caffeine, searched as...
- MontenegroNot listed in Montenegro's narcotics and psychotropics schedule, and placed instead under Zakon o...
- MoroccoNot a controlled substance as read: caffeine is in no section II tableau of substances vénéneuses. It is not...
- MyanmarControlled in Myanmar as a designated precursor, not as a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance. Ministry...
- NetherlandsCaffeine is not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II. No Opiumwet offence arises from it as such, and the...
- New ZealandNot a controlled drug on the text cited, and the absence was tested rather than assumed. Caffeine, a xanthine...
- North MacedoniaNot a controlled drug under the classification lists. The lists carry no row for кофеин, and the instrument...
- NorwayNot controlled as narkotika in Norway. Caffeine is not a row on the narkotikaliste, and it is not reached by...
- OmanNot a controlled substance under the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal...
- PakistanNot a controlled substance in Pakistan's narcotics law. Caffeine is not a narcotic drug, a psychotropic...
- PanamaCaffeine is not placed inside Panama's drug chapter. It is not named in Resolución 200 of 2025 and no entry...
- ParaguayControlled under national control. Named on the Lista de Sustancias Psicoactivas de Control Nacional that...
- PhilippinesNot a dangerous drug on the text read: caffeine is not listed in the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists of...
- PolandNot named in the Polish national list. Caffeine appears nowhere in the three annexes, so it is neither a...
- PortugalCaffeine is legal everywhere as an ordinary food and beverage ingredient; the notable status in Portugal is...
- QatarCaffeine is not named in Table 1, Table 2 or Table 4 of Law No. 9 of 1987, and it is on none of the three...
- RomaniaCaffeine is not controlled in Romania, and that is a completed finding rather than an open question. The...
- Saint LuciaNot a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II...
- Saudi ArabiaCaffeine is not a controlled substance in Saudi Arabia. The schedules attached to the Law of Combating...
- SerbiaCaffeine is not a named entry on the Serbian controlled substance list. The dossier records a negative check...
- SingaporeNot a controlled drug and not a psychoactive substance under this Act. It is not in any Part of the First...
- SlovakiaCaffeine is not listed in the Slovak narcotic and psychotropic schedule. Act No. 139/1998 carries one closed...
- SloveniaNot named in the annex. A search of every named row of the annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih...
- South AfricaNot named in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 of the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992, so it is not a drug...
- SpainNot a controlled substance on the text read: Caffeine is not named in Anexo 1 or Anexo 2 of Real Decreto...
- Sri LankaNot a dangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): absent...
- SurinameThis act does not reach it. Caffeine is not listed in either annex to the Wet verdovende middelen and is not...
- SwedenNot named in the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om...
- SwitzerlandNot scheduled. The federal schedule ordinance BetmVV-EDI records no entry for caffeine. The German search...
- TaiwanNot controlled as a narcotic under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例): absent from all four...
- ThailandCaffeine is not named in Thailand's criminal drug schedules. A substance specific sweep, run in Thai and by...
- Trinidad and TobagoCaffeine is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the...
- TurkeyCaffeine is not a controlled drug in Turkey. The dossier's search record reads «Arama kaydı: “caffeine”...
- UkraineGoverned in Ukraine as a food ingredient rather than as a scheduled substance. Record UKR-24 reports that...
- United Arab EmiratesCaffeine is not a narcotic or psychotropic schedule entry in the current federal drug law materials. The...
- United KingdomNot a controlled drug. Caffeine is not named in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 as in force on 2...
- United StatesNot a federally controlled substance. It is in no schedule of 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 and no federal drug...
- UruguayNot a controlled drug. Caffeine appears in the national list only as a bulk chemical in the precursor table,...
- VenezuelaOutside the criminal drug schedule. Ley Orgánica de Drogas article 3 identifies controlled drugs by reference...
- VietnamNot named in the danh mục. Caffeine does not appear in Decree 28/2026’s narcotic or precursor schedules, so...
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Not individually verified
For these 126 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Caffeine specifically is scheduled under it. These are not legal answers and are deliberately not published as their own pages. Confirm with the country’s drug authority or your embassy.
- Aceh (Indonesia)
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- American Samoa (US)
- Angola
- Anguilla (UK)
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Azerbaijan
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Cyprus
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guam (US)
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Israel
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montserrat (UK)
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe