Caffeine in Timor-Leste: not individually verified

We have not confirmed that Caffeine specifically is scheduled in Timor-Leste, so this page gives no legal status. Publishing a guess here would be worse than publishing nothing. What we do know is the governing national drug law, below.

What is on record

Not confirmed. The only place the word "cafeína" appears anywhere in Lei n.º 2/2017 is a footnote to Anexo I's MDMA quantity entry, note 6, which reads in part: "pode aparecer misturada com impurezas (por exemplo, MDA, cafeína) ou ainda em associação com heroína" (it [MDMA] may appear mixed with impurities, for example MDA or caffeine, or still in association with heroin). That is caffeine mentioned as an example of a typical MDMA adulterant, in an explanatory footnote to a different substance's dosage table, not a listing of caffeine as a controlled substance in its own right; on the schedule as printed it is not in Tables I to IV under article 2(d), nor in Tables V or VI under article 2(e). This table-absence is not treated here as a settled negative answer, because Lei n.º 2/2017 does not close itself: article 3(3) allows the tables to be altered by law or updated in line with changes to the international Conventions, and whether that updating clause self-executes without a further legislative act is not resolved on the text read.

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