Cannabinol in Uruguay: not individually verified

Also known as: cbn

We have not confirmed that Cannabinol specifically is scheduled in Uruguay, 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 anchored search ran on cannabinol across all 526 entries and returned no entry. The three entries containing the string are "tetrahidrocannabinol; THC" at Lista Verde, Lista I, "dronabinol (delta-9-tetrahidrocannabinol y sus variantes estereoquimicas)" at Lista Verde, Lista II, carilla 14, and "hexahidrocannabinol; HHC" at the same tier, and none of them is this substance; each matches only inside the name and none is an anchored match. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. The three generic groups do not reach a cannabinoid [Certain]. The replacement annex names six THC isomers individually and adds hexahydrocannabinol by name, so it takes trouble over the cannabinoid family and still does not name this one, which strengthens the absence without closing the derivatives question [Likely]. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] That is what keeps this row open, and the ground has narrowed. The earlier cell deferred on two questions: whether a generic group caught the substance, and whether the derivatives limb reached it. The first is now answered, against control by group. The second is not: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends the list to the listed substances' "sales (cuando la existencia de dichas sales es posible), isomeros, derivados y los preparados que las contengan, segun las definiciones de estos", while the notes actually printed under the annexes are narrower and say only "Se consideran controlados tambien todos los isomeros y sales de las sustancias comprendidas en las listas, asi como los productos que las contengan", with no mention of derivatives and no exception clause. The definitions the article points to are not printed anywhere in the three annexes [Certain as to both wordings and as to the absence]. So the nearest listed things are thc at Lista Verde, Lista I, and resina de cannabis y extractos y tinturas de cannabis at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, and whether the derivatives limb reaches this substance is a question the instrument still does not answer. This cell is a deferral and not a finding of absence, and it must not be read or indexed as a statement that the substance is uncontrolled in Uruguay. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.

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