CBD in Nicaragua: not individually verified

Not individually verified

We have not confirmed that CBD specifically is scheduled in Nicaragua, 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. CBD was not settled against Nicaragua's controlled list in this pass. Cannabidiol is not named in the annexed lists, and it is not among the cannabinoids the 1971 list carries. The printed cannabis entry covers the plant and its resin, which leaves an isolated non intoxicating constituent unresolved on the face of these lists. The lists relied on are those as annexed in 1999 and carried into Ley No. 735 by article 101 of the consolidated text published in La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 32 of 20 February 2024. That reading does not rule out a later incorporation by the Ministry of Health, which article 1 permits to be published in any newspaper of national circulation before it reaches the gazette.

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What Nicaragua HAS confirmed for related substances

Cannabis / THCa related compound, not CBD
Controlled in Nicaragua. The entry relied on is «Cannabis y su resina», printed among the lists and tables annexed to Ley No. 285 and carried into Ley No. 735 by article 101 of its consolidated text, which article 361 of Ley No. 641 then makes the object of the drug offences in Titulo XIV. Plant and resin travel in one entry, and marihuana is the only substance article 358 gives its own gram band to, separate from the band that covers everything else. The lists relied on are those as annexed in 1999 and carried into Ley No. 735 by article 101 of the consolidated text published in La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 32 of 20 February 2024. That reading does not rule out a later incorporation by the Ministry of Health, which article 1 permits to be published in any newspaper of national circulation before it reaches the gazette.
Ley No. 735 consolidated text, articles 1 and 101, published in La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 32 of 20 February 2024 under the Digesto Juridico of Ley No. 1159 · Ley No. 1220, reforming article 1, La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 171 of 13 September 2024 · Ley No. 641 Codigo Penal, Titulo XIV, articles 348 to 362, in that same consolidated text · Ley No. 1216, reforming article 358 and adding articles 362 bis and 362 ter, La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 166 of 6 September 2024 · lists and tables annexed to Ley No. 285, La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 70 of 16 April 1999, incorporated by article 101 of Ley No. 735 · pgr.gob.ni · pgr.gob.ni · uaf.gob.ni · Penalty, quantity and fine figures in this cell were re-derived from the articles named above and were NOT carried forward from the entry this replaces. The figures in that entry traced to the 1994 text of Ley No. 177, which article 101 of Ley No. 735 derogates, and they are displaced rather than preserved. · Verified September 21, 2026
Delta-8-THCa related compound, not CBD
Controlled in Nicaragua. The entry relied on is «Tetrahidrocannabinol», printed among the lists and tables annexed to Ley No. 285 and carried into Ley No. 735 by article 101 of its consolidated text, which article 361 of Ley No. 641 then makes the object of the drug offences in Titulo XIV. The annex prints tetrahydrocannabinol without qualifying the double bond position, and its preamble extends each entry to the isomers of that substance where the isomer can exist. The delta 8 isomer is not named in the annexed lists as a separate line, so it is reached by the printed entry read with the isomers rule and not by an entry of its own. The lists relied on are those as annexed in 1999 and carried into Ley No. 735 by article 101 of the consolidated text published in La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 32 of 20 February 2024. That reading does not rule out a later incorporation by the Ministry of Health, which article 1 permits to be published in any newspaper of national circulation before it reaches the gazette.
Ley No. 735 consolidated text, articles 1 and 101, published in La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 32 of 20 February 2024 under the Digesto Juridico of Ley No. 1159 · Ley No. 1220, reforming article 1, La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 171 of 13 September 2024 · Ley No. 641 Codigo Penal, Titulo XIV, articles 348 to 362, in that same consolidated text · Ley No. 1216, reforming article 358 and adding articles 362 bis and 362 ter, La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 166 of 6 September 2024 · lists and tables annexed to Ley No. 285, La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 70 of 16 April 1999, incorporated by article 101 of Ley No. 735 · pgr.gob.ni · pgr.gob.ni · uaf.gob.ni · Penalty, quantity and fine figures in this cell were re-derived from the articles named above and were NOT carried forward from the entry this replaces. The figures in that entry traced to the 1994 text of Ley No. 177, which article 101 of Ley No. 735 derogates, and they are displaced rather than preserved. · Verified September 21, 2026

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