Is Cathinone legal in Grenada?

Legal status

Controlled. It is listed at Part II of the First Schedule, the List of Psychotropic Substances Under Control, and the entry as printed is 'CATHINONE' in the INN column. Section 3(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by Order subject to affirmative resolution, so the printed schedule is not the last word and no Order later than SRO 16 of 2011 was read here.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Searched as 'cathinone' and as 'cathine'. Both are printed and they are different entries: 'CATHINONE' sits in the two column stretch of Part II with the unrelated trivial name 'DET' beside it, and 'CATHINE' appears further down against '(+)-norpseudoephedrine', which is its real synonym. Neither the khat plant nor any ring substituted cathinone derivative is named. Part II extends only to a stereoisomeric form under paragraph 2, a salt under paragraph 3 and a preparation or other product containing one of those under paragraph 4. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does. The Fifth Schedule sets every punishment under section 37 and it does not graduate by substance at all. Possession under section 6(2), possession with intent to supply under section 6(3), production under section 5(2), supply or offering to supply under section 5(3), importation or exportation under section 4(3) and handling under section 7(1) each carry, on summary conviction, a fine of 250,000 dollars or imprisonment for 5 years or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of 500,000 dollars or imprisonment for 20 years or both. Trafficking under section 18(4) is the one figure that moves: on indictment it is imprisonment for life. Section 21 adds a separate offence of possession in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, also imprisonment for life on indictment. The act provides no death penalty. The Second Schedule prints a trafficable quantity for six drugs only, cannabis and cannabis resin, cocaine, heroin, opium, morphine and THC, so no threshold figure attaches to this row and the section 6(4) presumption of supply has no quantity to bite on. The Part of the First Schedule named in this cell is read from the act itself and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the schedule only as Parts I to IV.

If prescribed or medical

Section 12(3) requires the Minister to make regulations securing that it is not unlawful under section 5(1) for a practitioner acting as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, nor unlawful under section 6(1) for a practitioner or pharmacist to possess one for that purpose, and section 24(2)(g) empowers regulations on the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Section 12(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by order. Whether regulations under sections 12 and 24 are in force, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of cathinone in Grenada, was not established here.

Documentation

Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 24(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade, and sections 14 and 15 govern drugs brought into Grenada in transit rather than personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with Grenada’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.