Cannabinol in Panama: not individually verified

Also known as: cbn

We have not confirmed that Cannabinol specifically is scheduled in Panama, 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. Whether Panama's criminal definition of a drug reaches Cannabinol was not established by the instruments read here. It is not named in Resolución 200 of 2025 and no entry for it was read in the schedules of the 1961 or 1971 Conventions. Article 324 of the Código Penal defines the criminal object for the whole drug chapter, and it does so functionally and by incorporation rather than by a closed national list: «droga es toda sustancia que produzca dependencia física o síquica, como los narcóticos, fármacos, estupefacientes y todos aquellos productos, precursores y sustancias químicas esenciales que sirven para su elaboración, transformación o preparación, de conformidad con las disposiciones legales en materia de salud, convenios y acuerdos internacionales vigentes en la República de Panamá.». Panama therefore has no closed criminal schedule of its own. A substance is reached where it produces physical or psychic dependence and where the health legislation and the international conventions in force in Panama place it, so a reader looking for a Panamanian chemical annex to be absent from is looking for a document the criminal law does not use. Because the definition opens with a functional test rather than a list, an absence from the lists that were read does not close the question, and nothing read here shows the dependence limb being applied to this row. The two apparent matches for this name in the psychotropic schedule are both fragments of longer words wrapped across a column, one the tetrahydro form and one the hexahydro form, and neither is an entry for the plain compound. Panama's hemp statute, by contrast, uses this exact word as its name for the non-psychoactive cannabinoid and defines it in those terms, so the national statute and the international schedules use the word differently.

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