Legality
Cannabinol legal status by country
Also known as: cbn
Countries where the legal status of Cannabinol 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 Cannabinol in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- AngolaControlled through what it contains rather than under its own name. Cannabinol is not named in the tables and...
- Antigua and BarbudaControlled. It is a Class A drug, and the isolated substance is treated more severely than the plant. It is...
- AustraliaProhibited under the Poisons Standard and a border controlled drug; its status for Commonwealth possession...
- BahrainControlled. Cannabinol is reached, where it is obtained from the plant, through the extracts and tinctures of...
- BarbadosNot a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap....
- BelgiumCannabinol is not reached by the Belgian controlled drug lists on the text checked here. The search found no...
- BelizeCannabinol is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule I paragraph 1(a), in the Misuse of...
- British Virgin Islands (UK)Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part I of Schedule 2 names...
- BruneiClass A controlled drug. It sits in the First Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 27 of the Laws of...
- BulgariaNot listed. Cannabinol is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за...
- CanadaControlled as cannabis, and the Cannabis Act rather than the drug act is the instrument. Cannabinol is a...
- Cayman Islands (UK)Controlled under the Cayman Islands' own Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision). Cannabinol is named in Part 1...
- ColombiaNot listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for cannabinol, canabinol or CBN as at...
- CroatiaCannabinol is not named in the Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te...
- CubaControlled in Cuba as a cannabis derivative. Article 236(b) covers «Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, o sus...
- CyprusControlled under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29/1977, as amended;...
- CzechiaNot listed. Cannabinol is not printed as an entry in any of the eight seznamy of nařízení vlády č. 463/2013...
- DenmarkNot a placed substance under the Danish euphoriants legislation: it is not named in liste A, B, C, D or E of...
- DominicaCannabinol is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of...
- EgyptControlled as a narcotic substance in Egypt's Table 1, by two readings of the table, neither of which prints...
- EstoniaCannabinol is not listed in the Estonian narcotic and psychotropic schedule. No entry for cannabinol was...
- Falkland Islands (UK)Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Part 1 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987...
- FinlandControlled only as a constituent, and not on its own name. Cannabinol is not named in any annex of...
- FranceCannabinol is not carried by either French closed list. The dossier's finding for this row is recorded in the...
- GermanyCannabinol is not a scheduled substance in Germany on this reading, and the row turns on a rejection that is...
- GhanaControlled under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019): Sixth Schedule item 4 names...
- GreeceNot listed in the Greek narcotics tables. Cannabinol 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...
- GuyanaControlled. The term the dossier records for this row against the First and Second Schedules to the Narcotic...
- HondurasNot a controlled drug for the purposes of Articles 311 to 313 of the Código Penal. Cannabinol, searched also...
- Hong KongA dangerous drug in Hong Kong. Part I of the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134), in...
- HungaryNot listed. Cannabinol 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 on the face of the list. Cannabinol has no row: it is not named in...
- 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...
- IranCannabinol has no entry of its own in Iran’s recovered drug instruments: it is not named in the...
- IraqControlled in the cannabis forms Schedule One names, and as an isolate it is not named in any Iraqi schedule....
- IrelandCannabinol is a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: Schedule 1; S.I....
- ItalyNot scheduled. A search of the closed tables I to IV and the table of medicinal products under article 14 of...
- JapanCannabinol is controlled in Japan as a 指定薬物, a designated substance, under the pharmaceuticals Act, and it is...
- JordanWhether Cannabinol is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and...
- KazakhstanCannabinol is not controlled by Kazakhstan's Resolution No. 470, on the version of the lists read for this...
- 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. Cannabinol is in no table of Group 1 or Group...
- LatviaCannabinol is controlled in Latvia. The controlling instrument is 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...
- LithuaniaCannabinol is not listed in the Lithuanian narcotic and psychotropic lists. Health Minister Order No. 5 is...
- MalaysiaCannabinol is not named in the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, and it is not one of the...
- MaltaWhich Maltese ordinance governs cannabinol is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that...
- MexicoCannabinol is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General...
- MoldovaControlled in Moldova. Cannabinol is reached by a reading of Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante...
- NetherlandsCannabinol, CBN, is not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II. Lijst I names «tetrahydrocannabinol» and «HHC...
- New ZealandNot a controlled drug on the text cited, and the absence was tested rather than assumed. Cannabinol, a...
- NorwayControlled in Norway. Cannabinol is named in the narkotikaliste, the list made under section 4 of the...
- PolandNot named in the Polish national list. Cannabinol appears in none of the three annexes under its own name....
- QatarCannabinol 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...
- RomaniaCannabinol is not controlled in Romania, and that is a completed finding rather than an open question. The...
- Saint LuciaControlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is...
- SingaporeClass A controlled drug. Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (Singapore), First Schedule, Part 1 (Class A Drugs), entry...
- SlovakiaCannabinol is not listed in the Slovak narcotic and psychotropic schedule. Act No. 139/1998 carries one...
- Sri LankaDangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): Group B Section...
- 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 cannabinol. The German search...
- TaiwanCategory 2 narcotic (第二級毒品) under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例), named at...
- TanzaniaControlled as a cannabis extract, and not named as a compound. Cannabinol is not named in the First or Second...
- ThailandControlled as an extract, by the tetrahydrocannabinol content of the preparation rather than by its own name....
- Timor-LesteNot named by that term anywhere in Anexo II to Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro; a direct search for...
- Trinidad and TobagoCannabinol is entry (3) of item 3 of the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, «LIST OF...
- United KingdomControlled as a Class B drug. Part II of Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 names it at paragraph...
- United StatesNot listed in any federal schedule under its own name, but the source decides. Under 21 USC 802(16)(A) every...
- VietnamNot named in the danh mục. Cannabinol/CBN is not an appendix entry and has a different molecular formula from...
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Not individually verified
For these 154 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Cannabinol 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
- Albania
- Algeria
- American Samoa (US)
- Andorra
- Anguilla (UK)
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guam (US)
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Macau
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat (UK)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Spain
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Togo
- Tonga
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe