Legality · CBDCBD in Vietnam: not individually verified
Not individually verified
We have not confirmed that CBD specifically is scheduled in Vietnam, 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. Pure CBD is not named, but because CBD and THC are constitutional isomers and the heading uses the broad word “đồng phân” while General Note 2 elaborates only stereochemical cases, this build does not invent a definitive CBD inclusion or exclusion. The decree prints “Delta-9-tetrahydrocanabinol và ester …”. Constitutional isomerism between cannabidiol and the scheduled tetrahydrocannabinols is exactly what the general note does not resolve, so neither inclusion nor exclusion is asserted here. The dossier marks this row not verified, and that is the state this cell reports rather than a status it does not hold, because the Criminal Code reaches only a chất ma túy and whether that term covers this row is the unresolved question.
Confirm directly with Vietnam’s national drug authority or your own embassy before you rely on anything.
What Vietnam HAS confirmed for related substances
These are related compounds, not CBD. Their status may or may not reflect CBD’s. Confirm CBD directly with Vietnam's national drug authority or your embassy.
Controlled. Cannabis is printed in List IA of the danh mục annexed to Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January 2026, which is the list the Criminal Code's own definition of chất ma túy points at, and the entry reads “Cây cần sa … Lá, rễ, thân, cành, nụ, hoa, quả của cây cần sa”. Decree 28 expressly lists the cannabis plant and cannabis preparations containing THC, while the Penal Code gives plant material and cannabis resin different quantity ladders.
Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, danh mục chất ma túy và tiền chất, issued and in force 19 January 2026 · vbpl.vn · Bộ luật Hình sự số 100/2015/QH13 as amended by Luật số 86/2025/QH15, khoản 18 Điều 1, in force 1 July 2025 · vbpl.vn · văn bản hợp nhất số 135/VBHN-VPQH, the consolidated Criminal Code text used for the article wording · thuvienphapluat.vn · placement for Cannabis: List IA in the dossier, item number IA #9 and #10 carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass · read as those lists stand after Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January 2026, and this reading does not rule out a later amendment made under Điều 3 khoản 6 of that decree · dossier date checked 17 September 2026 · the danh mục placement stated for this row is taken from the instrument column of the source read for this cell and is not printed in the passage quoted here, because the quotation column of that source carries the entry text rather than the list it sits under. Nothing a traveller acts on turns on the list number, because the medical route is deferred either way · the placement was confirmed against the decree itself, read at the Government's own published text on 21 September 2026: danh mục IA prints «Cây cần sa» at serial 9, described as «Lá, rễ, thân, cành, nụ, hoa, quả của cây cần sa», and «Các chế phẩm từ cần sa» at serial 10. That supersedes the statement above that the list placement is not printed in the quoted passage · Verified September 21, 2026
Controlled. Delta 8 THC is printed in List IB of the danh mục annexed to Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January 2026, which is the list the Criminal Code's own definition of chất ma túy points at, and the entry reads “Delta-8-THC và ester”. Delta-8-THC and its esters are expressly named in List IB, resolving this cannabinoid without relying on the broader cannabis-preparation entry.
Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, danh mục chất ma túy và tiền chất, issued and in force 19 January 2026 · vbpl.vn · Bộ luật Hình sự số 100/2015/QH13 as amended by Luật số 86/2025/QH15, khoản 18 Điều 1, in force 1 July 2025 · vbpl.vn · văn bản hợp nhất số 135/VBHN-VPQH, the consolidated Criminal Code text used for the article wording · thuvienphapluat.vn · placement for Delta 8 THC: List IB in the dossier, item number IB #8 carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass · read as those lists stand after Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January 2026, and this reading does not rule out a later amendment made under Điều 3 khoản 6 of that decree · dossier date checked 17 September 2026 · Verified September 21, 2026
Controlled. HHC is printed in List IIB of the danh mục annexed to Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January 2026, which is the list the Criminal Code's own definition of chất ma túy points at, and the entry reads “Hexahydrocannabinol; HHC và ester”. HHC and its esters are expressly listed in IIB, so HHC is controlled independently of the plant-cannabis entry and uses general other-narcotic bands.
Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, danh mục chất ma túy và tiền chất, issued and in force 19 January 2026 · vbpl.vn · Bộ luật Hình sự số 100/2015/QH13 as amended by Luật số 86/2025/QH15, khoản 18 Điều 1, in force 1 July 2025 · vbpl.vn · văn bản hợp nhất số 135/VBHN-VPQH, the consolidated Criminal Code text used for the article wording · thuvienphapluat.vn · placement for HHC: List IIB in the dossier, item number IIB #187 carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass · read as those lists stand after Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January 2026, and this reading does not rule out a later amendment made under Điều 3 khoản 6 of that decree · dossier date checked 17 September 2026 · Verified September 21, 2026
Not applicable as a class status. The synthetic-cannabinoids slug spans many individually listed compounds, and XLR-11 uniquely receives the Penal Code’s special lower band while other listed cannabinoids use the general band, so one class result would be legally false. The decree prints individual compounds, “XLR-11” among them, and the Criminal Code names that one compound in its own lower quantity group, so one class answer would be false for whichever member it did not fit, and the Criminal Code attaches its quantity bands to named substances rather than to families.
Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, danh mục chất ma túy và tiền chất, issued and in force 19 January 2026 · vbpl.vn · Bộ luật Hình sự số 100/2015/QH13 as amended by Luật số 86/2025/QH15, khoản 18 Điều 1, in force 1 July 2025 · vbpl.vn · văn bản hợp nhất số 135/VBHN-VPQH, the consolidated Criminal Code text used for the article wording · thuvienphapluat.vn · placement for Synthetic cannabinoids: IIB #336, carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass · read as those lists stand after Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January 2026, and this reading does not rule out a later amendment made under Điều 3 khoản 6 of that decree · dossier date checked 17 September 2026 · Verified September 21, 2026
Not named in the danh mục. THCP is not named in the current appendix; its heptyl side chain gives it a different molecular formula from the scheduled THC entries, so it is not resolved by the stereochemical-isomer note. THC-P does not appear in any of the four danh mục annexed to Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP as those lists stand on 19 January 2026, and an absence from the list is not a finding that it is lawful in Vietnam. This cell does not say that it is.
Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, danh mục chất ma túy và tiền chất, issued and in force 19 January 2026 · vbpl.vn · Bộ luật Hình sự số 100/2015/QH13 as amended by Luật số 86/2025/QH15, khoản 18 Điều 1, in force 1 July 2025 · vbpl.vn · văn bản hợp nhất số 135/VBHN-VPQH, the consolidated Criminal Code text used for the article wording · thuvienphapluat.vn · placement for THC-P: not listed, carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass · read as those lists stand after Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January 2026, and this reading does not rule out a later amendment made under Điều 3 khoản 6 of that decree · dossier date checked 17 September 2026 · Verified September 21, 2026
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