Cannabinol in Samoa: not individually verified

Also known as: cbn

We have not confirmed that Cannabinol specifically is scheduled in Samoa, 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. Cannabinol (CBN) is not named by that name anywhere in the Narcotics Act 1967. The Act's cannabis related entries are Second Schedule item 1, 'Cannabis preparations: that is, any preparation containing any tetrahydrocannabinols, including cannabis resin (commonly known as hashish) and cannabis oil (commonly known as hash oil), produced by subjecting cannabis plant material to any kind of processing', and item 6, 'Tetrahydrocannabinols, except when contained in a Class C Narcotic'. Cannabinol is chemically distinct from a tetrahydrocannabinol: it is the oxidised, fully aromatic degradation product that forms as THC ages, and it lacks the saturated ring that the 'tetrahydro' part of the name describes. On that structural ground, cannabinol itself is not a tetrahydrocannabinol and is not reached by item 6's wording or by the isomer, ester, salt, and admixture extension clauses in Schedule clauses B to E, which extend only to isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and admixtures of the named tetrahydrocannabinol substances, not to a chemically different degradation product. A cannabis preparation containing cannabinol alongside any tetrahydrocannabinols would still be caught by item 1, because that entry asks only whether the preparation contains any tetrahydrocannabinols, not whether cannabinol itself is present.

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