Is Caffeine legal in Singapore?
- Legal status
- Not a controlled drug and not a psychoactive substance under this Act. It is not in any Part of the First Schedule, and the Fifth Schedule, Part 1 (Excluded Substances) names "Caffeine or any caffeine product" at item 16, which takes it outside the Part 2A psychoactive substance offences. Part 2 defines a caffeine product as one that contains caffeine but "does not contain any other psychoactive substance".
- Consequences if caught
- Second Schedule reach: none. The Second Schedule carries 20 rows imposing "Death" and they name exactly eight terms: opium, morphine, diamorphine, cocaine, cannabis, cannabis mixture, cannabis resin and methamphetamine. This substance is none of those eight, is not a controlled drug, and is an excluded substance for the psychoactive substance regime, so the Misuse of Drugs Act reaches it with no penalty at all, capital or otherwise. Any restriction on it comes from a different statute.
- If prescribed or medical
- Not applicable under this Act. Any control is under the separate statute that governs it.
- Documentation
- VERIFIED against the instrument. Instrument: Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (Singapore). Sections: First Schedule (absent from all three Parts) and Fifth Schedule, Part 1, item 16. URL: https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/MDA1973. The Fifth Schedule was read in full, all 17 items and the Part 2 interpretation.
- Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (Singapore), First Schedule, Second Schedule, Third Schedule and Fifth Schedule, on Singapore Statutes Online at https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/MDA1973, read as at the version the page marks "Current version as at 17 Sep 2026", the most recent amendment shown on its own timeline being S 321/2026 with effect from 1 June 2026
Court records
We publish verified court records for Singapore, but have not verified one involving Caffeine.
Source checked eLitigation (Singapore Courts) · 2026-08-27
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