Cannabis and cannabis resin is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule I paragraph 1(a), in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It follows the Cannabinol derivatives entry and precedes the line that runs Cathinone and Cocoa leaf together. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. The Act defines cannabis at section 2(1)(e) to include any part of the plant of the genus cannabis, any resin obtained from that plant, and any product of which such resin forms a base. Cannabis is the one substance in this set whose treatment the subsidiary volume carries in full: the Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Violation Tickets) Regulations, S.I. 28 of 2019, and the Misuse of Drugs (Industrial Hemp) Regulations, S.I. 54 of 2019 as amended by S.I. 75 of 2020, are both consolidated in it. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Belize, Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule I paragraph 1(a), in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · the Act's offence and penalty provisions were read in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text stops partway through section 28 and carries none of its own three schedules, so no class and no ordinary possession maximum is taken from it · read as at 22 September 2026 · Verified September 21, 2026
Delta-8-THC is a Class A controlled drug in Belize when it is not contained in cannabis or cannabis resin, as a cannabinol derivative, and the answer rests on reading the words «other Cannabinol deravitives.» on the Schedule II page as an entry of their own. Section 2(1) of the Act defines «cannabinol derivatives» as «the following substances, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin, namely, tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives». Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 prints «Cannabinol, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin» and, in the right column, the words «other Cannabinol deravitives.», misspelt and set inside the entry for morphine methobromide and the other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives, which is how the Revised Edition 2020 page prints it. The Misuse of Drugs Regulations print «Cannabinol derivatives» as a clean entry of its own in Schedule I paragraph 1(a). Cannabis and cannabis resin are in Part II, Class B, so a cannabinoid still contained in cannabis is cannabis and Class B. The 1990 text as UNODC holds it lettered the same definition section 2(1)(f). PubChem names cannabinol 6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentylbenzo[c]chromen-1-ol and delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol 6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6a,7,10,10a-tetrahydrobenzo[c]chromen-1-ol, the same skeleton with four added hydrogens, which is a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol. Whether delta-8-THC made by converting extracted cannabidiol is still «contained in cannabis or cannabis resin» is not stated, and the CBD row leaves the matching question open. Section 2(1) also takes industrial hemp out of «cannabis». Schedule II of the Act is headed «Controlled Drugs» and cites section 4, and section 4(1) provides that the expression controlled drugs means any substance or product for the time being specified in Part I, II or III of Schedule II, and that Class A, Class B and Class C drugs are those specified respectively in Parts I, II and III. The Act read is Chapter 103 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, whose Schedule II carries the footnote «This Schedule was amended by Statutory Instrument No. 5 of 2014 and Statutory Instrument No 132 of 2020.» The two later amending Acts, No. 25 of 2023 and No. 26 of 2024, were read too: the first amends section 48(4) and the second repeals section 28B, and neither touches section 4, section 7, section 18, section 28 or any Schedule.
Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, section 2(1), the definition of cannabinol derivatives, and Schedule II Part I paragraph 1, in the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, with sections 4, 7, 18 and 28 and Schedule III of the same volume · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule I paragraph 1(a), «Cannabinol derivatives», in the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020 · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2020, S.I. 132 of 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6a67dbac595cd_SI_No._132_of_2020_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment_of_Second_Schedule__Order__2020.pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 25 of 2023, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/64baeb84e3181_Act_No._25_of_2023_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment__Act__2023..pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 26 of 2024, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67fe7a0e1645c_Act_No._26_of_2024_Misuse_of_Drugs_Amendment_Act-2024.pdf · Senior Courts of Belize, Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67991ef1f0520_Practice_Direction_No._7_of_2025_Sentencing_Guidelines_for__Drug_Offences.pdf · for comparison only, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · PubChem, delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol CID 638026, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/638026 · PubChem, cannabinol CID 2543, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/2543 · read as at 3 October 2026 · Verified October 3, 2026
Synthetic cannabinoids is a family label covering hundreds of distinct compounds, and Belize's subsidiary volume prints no family entry for them. The nearest printed thing is the Schedule I entry Cannabinol derivatives, and the Act defines that narrowly at section 2(1)(f) as the tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and the 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin. That definition is about cannabinol itself. It does not describe an indole or indazole carboxamide, which is what most compounds sold as synthetic cannabinoids are. No JWH, AM, XLR, AB-, MDMB- or cumyl name appears anywhere in the volume, and neither does the word cannabimimetic. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103, the Subsidiary Laws volume, Revised Edition 2020, showing the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020, searched in full across the Misuse of Drugs Regulations and their Schedules I to V, the Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations and the Industrial Hemp Regulations · agm.gov.bz · the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text runs from section 1 to partway through section 28 and carries none of its First, Second or Third Schedules, so the list that decides control was not read · read as at 22 September 2026 · Verified September 21, 2026
THC-P is a Class A controlled drug in Belize when it is not contained in cannabis or cannabis resin, as a cannabinol derivative, and the answer rests on reading the words «other Cannabinol deravitives.» on the Schedule II page as an entry of their own. Section 2(1) of the Act defines «cannabinol derivatives» as «the following substances, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin, namely, tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives». Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 prints «Cannabinol, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin» and, in the right column, the words «other Cannabinol deravitives.», misspelt and set inside the entry for morphine methobromide and the other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives, which is how the Revised Edition 2020 page prints it. The Misuse of Drugs Regulations print «Cannabinol derivatives» as a clean entry of its own in Schedule I paragraph 1(a). Cannabis and cannabis resin are in Part II, Class B, so a cannabinoid still contained in cannabis is cannabis and Class B. The 1990 text as UNODC holds it lettered the same definition section 2(1)(f). PubChem names tetrahydrocannabiphorol 3-heptyl-6,6,9-trimethyl-6a,7,8,10a-tetrahydrobenzo[c]chromen-1-ol: the tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol with the pentyl at position three lengthened to a heptyl, which is a 3-alkyl homologue of a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol in the definition's own words. Schedule II of the Act is headed «Controlled Drugs» and cites section 4, and section 4(1) provides that the expression controlled drugs means any substance or product for the time being specified in Part I, II or III of Schedule II, and that Class A, Class B and Class C drugs are those specified respectively in Parts I, II and III. THC-P and tetrahydrocannabiphorol return nothing in the Act or the Regulations, so this is the definition applied to a structure and not a printed name. The Act read is Chapter 103 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, whose Schedule II carries the footnote «This Schedule was amended by Statutory Instrument No. 5 of 2014 and Statutory Instrument No 132 of 2020.» The two later amending Acts, No. 25 of 2023 and No. 26 of 2024, were read too: the first amends section 48(4) and the second repeals section 28B, and neither touches section 4, section 7, section 18, section 28 or any Schedule.
Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, section 2(1), the definition of cannabinol derivatives, and Schedule II Part I paragraph 1, in the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, with sections 4, 7, 18 and 28 and Schedule III of the same volume · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule I paragraph 1(a), «Cannabinol derivatives», in the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020 · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2020, S.I. 132 of 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6a67dbac595cd_SI_No._132_of_2020_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment_of_Second_Schedule__Order__2020.pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 25 of 2023, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/64baeb84e3181_Act_No._25_of_2023_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment__Act__2023..pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 26 of 2024, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67fe7a0e1645c_Act_No._26_of_2024_Misuse_of_Drugs_Amendment_Act-2024.pdf · Senior Courts of Belize, Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67991ef1f0520_Practice_Direction_No._7_of_2025_Sentencing_Guidelines_for__Drug_Offences.pdf · for comparison only, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · PubChem, tetrahydrocannabiphorol CID 6453074, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/6453074 · PubChem, cannabinol CID 2543, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/2543 · read as at 3 October 2026 · Verified October 3, 2026
