CBD in Dominican Republic: not individually verified

Not individually verified

We have not confirmed that CBD specifically is scheduled in Dominican Republic, 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. Cannabidiol has no entry of its own in the Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, and it is not a tetrahydrocannabinol, so the plural entry «Tetrahidrocanabinoles» at number 21 of acápite III of Categoría I does not reach it by its own words. What may reach it is the definition: acápite XXIX of article 2 defines «Marihuana» to include every compound, product, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of the Cannabis Sativa L. plant, its seeds or its resin, while excluding the mature stalks, the fibre from them and the oil or paste made from the seeds. A plant derived cannabidiol preparation is on the face of that definition a derivative of the plant. A synthetic one, or one made from seed oil, is on the face of the same definition outside it. The law prints no THC percentage, no hemp threshold and no industrial exemption, so the question turns on a fact about the product rather than on a figure in the statute.

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What Dominican Republic HAS confirmed for related substances

Cannabis / THCa related compound, not CBD
Controlled. Cannabis is the entry «Marihuana» at number 13 of acápite III of Categoría I of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 7360, and acápite XXIX of article 2 defines that word to mean every part of the Cannabis Sativa L. plant, its seeds, its resin and every compound, product, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of the plant, its seeds or its resin, while excluding the mature stalks, the fibre from them and the oil or paste made from the seeds.
Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría I acápite III item 13, code 7360 · article 2 acápite XXIX · article 6 · article 9(f) · article 64 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Verified October 3, 2026
Delta-8-THCa related compound, not CBD
Controlled. Delta-8-THC is reached by the plural entry «Tetrahidrocanabinoles» at number 21 of acápite III of Categoría I of article 8 of Ley 50-88, under identification code 7370, which names the tetrahydrocannabinols as a group rather than naming one isomer.
Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría I acápite III item 21, code 7370 · article 2 acápites XXV and XXIX · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Verified October 3, 2026
Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)a related compound, not CBD
Not listed. Synthetic cannabinoids are a label covering many unrelated chemical families, and none of them is named in the Categorías. The one cannabinoid entry the law carries, «Tetrahidrocanabinoles» at number 21 of acápite III of Categoría I under code 7370, is the tetrahydro family and does not reach an indole or indazole carboxamide, which is a different structure altogether. Acápite XXIX of article 2 defines «Marihuana» by reference to the plant, so a compound never derived from the plant is outside it. Acápite XXV of article 2 places «el THC (Tetrahidrocannabinol)» in the Grupos Alucinógenos and ends that list with «y otras similares», and article 7 reaches a sustancia alucinógena at any quantity, so a compound designed to act as THC acts is not closed out by the absence alone. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Verified October 3, 2026

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