Legal status in Colombia

Per-substance legal status for Colombia, from sourced statutes where available. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.

87 confirmed substances1 not individually verifiedLast updated September 21, 2026

Confirmed legal status

1P-LSD

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for 1P-LSD, 1-propionil-lisergida or 1-propionil-LSD as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for 1P-LSD, 1-propionil-lisergida or 1-propionil-LSD. Anexo Técnico 1 numbers its 469 entries consecutively from 1 to 469 with no gap, so the absence was confirmed by reading the whole of it: a sweep of every entry name and every chemical name returns no hit for this substance.. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the Lista Verde rules extend a listed substance only to its salts and stereoisomers, and an N1-propionyl amide is neither. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] Lisérgida itself is entry 1 on the Lista Verde, Lista I, so a preparation proved to contain lysergide would be reached through that entry rather than through this name.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returning no hit for it, (+)-Lisérgida, and entry 2, 1-Fenil-2-Propanona, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returns no hit for it. [Certain] Corrected in this pass: an earlier version of this cell named the two entries either side of where the term would sort. That pair was computed on the assumption that the annex sorts on the printed string, and it does not. It sorts ignoring hyphens, spaces and punctuation, which an independent re-parse demonstrated on two runs of the instrument, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, 2-Metil-AP-237, and Nicocodina, Nicodicodina, Nicomorfina, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, N-metilefedrina, Norcodeína. The neighbour pair is withdrawn. The absence itself is unchanged and rests on a complete reading of all 469 entries, which does not depend on the sort order. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned hits only for the fragment propionyl, which sits inside FENTANYL's own chemical name and inside a diphenylpropyl compound, and names nothing on this row. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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2-FDCK

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 12, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, chemical name 2-(2-fluorofenil)-2-(metilamino)ciclohexan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Likely] Downgraded from [Certain] in this pass. That source note names the green list 28th edition of 2017 and the yellow list 56th edition of July 2017, and this resolution is dated 27 January 2026 and provides in its own article 3 for substances incluidas por primera vez en el Anexo Técnico No. 1. Article 376 requires the substance to sit in cuadros one to four of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and for an entry postdating the 28th edition that mapping rests on the Ministry's own placement rather than on the cited authority. The placement in the annex is [Certain]; the article 376 reach that follows from it is [Likely].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 12, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, chemical name 2-(2-fluorofenil)-2-(metilamino)ciclohexan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] The entry is spelled with a k, Fluorodescloroketamina, which is why a search on the Spanish spelling cetamina returns nothing.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 12, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, chemical name 2-(2-fluorofenil)-2-(metilamino)ciclohexan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 12, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, chemical name 2-(2-fluorofenil)-2-(metilamino)ciclohexan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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25I-NBOMe

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 9, 25I-NBOMe, chemical name 2-(4-yodo-2,5-dimetoxifenil)-N-(2-metoxibencil)etanamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 9, 25I-NBOMe, chemical name 2-(4-yodo-2,5-dimetoxifenil)-N-(2-metoxibencil)etanamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 9, 25I-NBOMe, chemical name 2-(4-yodo-2,5-dimetoxifenil)-N-(2-metoxibencil)etanamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 9, 25I-NBOMe, chemical name 2-(4-yodo-2,5-dimetoxifenil)-N-(2-metoxibencil)etanamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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2C-B

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 10, 2C-B, chemical name 4-bromo-2,5-dimetoxifenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 10, 2C-B, chemical name 4-bromo-2,5-dimetoxifenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 10, 2C-B, chemical name 4-bromo-2,5-dimetoxifenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 10, 2C-B, chemical name 4-bromo-2,5-dimetoxifenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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2C-E

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 11, 2C-E, chemical name 1-(2,5-Dimetoxi-4-etilfenil)-2-aminoetano, Lista Nacional. The entry carries the Lista Nacional alone, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 traces to no United Nations schedule, so whether Penal Code article 376 reaches it was not established. [Certain] as to the listing, not established as to the offence.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 11, 2C-E, chemical name 1-(2,5-Dimetoxi-4-etilfenil)-2-aminoetano, Lista Nacional. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and the entry read for this substance carries the Lista Nacional alone, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 traces to no United Nations schedule. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 11, 2C-E, chemical name 1-(2,5-Dimetoxi-4-etilfenil)-2-aminoetano, Lista Nacional. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 11, 2C-E, chemical name 1-(2,5-Dimetoxi-4-etilfenil)-2-aminoetano, Lista Nacional. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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2C-I

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for 2C-I as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for 2C-I. Anexo Técnico 1 numbers its 469 entries consecutively from 1 to 469 with no gap, so the absence was confirmed by reading the whole of it: a sweep of every entry name and every chemical name returns no hit for this substance.. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the Lista Verde rules extend only to salts and stereoisomers, which this is not. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] Entries 10, 11 and 12 are consecutive, so there is no room in the numbering for a 2C-I entry. The only two 2C entries in the whole annex are 2C-B and 2C-E.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returning no hit for it, 2C-B, and entry 11, 2C-E, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returns no hit for it. [Certain] Corrected in this pass: an earlier version of this cell named the two entries either side of where the term would sort. That pair was computed on the assumption that the annex sorts on the printed string, and it does not. It sorts ignoring hyphens, spaces and punctuation, which an independent re-parse demonstrated on two runs of the instrument, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, 2-Metil-AP-237, and Nicocodina, Nicodicodina, Nicomorfina, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, N-metilefedrina, Norcodeína. The neighbour pair is withdrawn. The absence itself is unchanged and rests on a complete reading of all 469 entries, which does not depend on the sort order. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned one hit, and it is worth a reader's attention rather than being buried: entry PN 008 of the Green List is 25I-NBOMe, printed as 2-(4-iodo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-N-(2-methoxybenzyl)ethanamine. That is this row's own core carrying an added N-benzyl group. The N-benzyl compound is internationally scheduled and this row is not, so the near miss cuts the other way from how it first reads. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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2C-T-7

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for 2C-T-7 as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for 2C-T-7. Anexo Técnico 1 numbers its 469 entries consecutively from 1 to 469 with no gap, so the absence was confirmed by reading the whole of it: a sweep of every entry name and every chemical name returns no hit for this substance.. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the Lista Verde rules extend only to salts and stereoisomers, which this is not. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] Entries 10, 11 and 12 are consecutive, so there is no room in the numbering for a 2C-T-7 entry. Entry 30, 4-MTA, is the only thiofenethylamine in the annex and is a different compound.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returning no hit for it, 2C-B, and entry 11, 2C-E, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returns no hit for it. [Certain] Corrected in this pass: an earlier version of this cell named the two entries either side of where the term would sort. That pair was computed on the assumption that the annex sorts on the printed string, and it does not. It sorts ignoring hyphens, spaces and punctuation, which an independent re-parse demonstrated on two runs of the instrument, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, 2-Metil-AP-237, and Nicocodina, Nicodicodina, Nicomorfina, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, N-metilefedrina, Norcodeína. The neighbour pair is withdrawn. The absence itself is unchanged and rests on a complete reading of all 469 entries, which does not depend on the sort order. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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3-MMC

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 18, 3-metilmetcatinona, chemical name 2-(metilamino)-1-(3-metilfenil)propan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 18, 3-metilmetcatinona, chemical name 2-(metilamino)-1-(3-metilfenil)propan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 18, 3-metilmetcatinona, chemical name 2-(metilamino)-1-(3-metilfenil)propan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 18, 3-metilmetcatinona, chemical name 2-(metilamino)-1-(3-metilfenil)propan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for 4-AcO-DMT, psilacetina or 4-acetoxi-DMT as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for 4-AcO-DMT, psilacetina or 4-acetoxi-DMT. Anexo Técnico 1 numbers its 469 entries consecutively from 1 to 469 with no gap, so the absence was confirmed by reading the whole of it: a sweep of every entry name and every chemical name returns no hit for this substance.. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the Lista Verde rules extend a listed substance only to its salts and stereoisomers, and an O-acetyl éster of psilocin is neither. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] The whole 4- block, entries 21 to 32, was read and contains no tryptamine. Psilocibina and psilocina are entries 407 and 408, so a preparation proved to contain either would be reached through those.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returning no hit for it, 4-Piperidona, and entry 33, 5F-AMB, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returns no hit for it. [Certain] Corrected in this pass: an earlier version of this cell named the two entries either side of where the term would sort. That pair was computed on the assumption that the annex sorts on the printed string, and it does not. It sorts ignoring hyphens, spaces and punctuation, which an independent re-parse demonstrated on two runs of the instrument, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, 2-Metil-AP-237, and Nicocodina, Nicodicodina, Nicomorfina, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, N-metilefedrina, Norcodeína. The neighbour pair is withdrawn. The absence itself is unchanged and rests on a complete reading of all 469 entries, which does not depend on the sort order. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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4-HO-MET

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for 4-HO-MET, metocina or 4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for 4-HO-MET, metocina or 4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina. Anexo Técnico 1 numbers its 469 entries consecutively from 1 to 469 with no gap, so the absence was confirmed by reading the whole of it: a sweep of every entry name and every chemical name returns no hit for this substance.. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the Lista Verde rules extend only to salts and stereoisomers, which this is not. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] The whole 4- block, entries 21 to 32, was read and contains no tryptamine.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returning no hit for it, 4-Piperidona, and entry 33, 5F-AMB, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returns no hit for it. [Certain] Corrected in this pass: an earlier version of this cell named the two entries either side of where the term would sort. That pair was computed on the assumption that the annex sorts on the printed string, and it does not. It sorts ignoring hyphens, spaces and punctuation, which an independent re-parse demonstrated on two runs of the instrument, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, 2-Metil-AP-237, and Nicocodina, Nicodicodina, Nicomorfina, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, N-metilefedrina, Norcodeína. The neighbour pair is withdrawn. The absence itself is unchanged and rests on a complete reading of all 469 entries, which does not depend on the sort order. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for 5-MeO-DMT, 5-metoxi-DMT or O-metilbufotenina as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for 5-MeO-DMT, 5-metoxi-DMT or O-metilbufotenina. Anexo Técnico 1 numbers its 469 entries consecutively from 1 to 469 with no gap, so the absence was confirmed by reading the whole of it: a sweep of every entry name and every chemical name returns no hit for this substance.. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the Lista Verde rules extend only to salts and stereoisomers, which this is not. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] Entry 38 is 5-MeO-MiPT, on the Lista Nacional, so the 5-MeO position in the alphabet was read directly and carries one tryptamine that is not this one. Entry 193, DMT, is the unsubstituted parent and is a different compound.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returning no hit for it, 5-MeO-MiPT, and entry 39, 6-APB, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returns no hit for it. [Certain] Corrected in this pass: an earlier version of this cell named the two entries either side of where the term would sort. That pair was computed on the assumption that the annex sorts on the printed string, and it does not. It sorts ignoring hyphens, spaces and punctuation, which an independent re-parse demonstrated on two runs of the instrument, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, 2-Metil-AP-237, and Nicocodina, Nicodicodina, Nicomorfina, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, N-metilefedrina, Norcodeína. The neighbour pair is withdrawn. The absence itself is unchanged and rests on a complete reading of all 469 entries, which does not depend on the sort order. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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6-APB

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 39, 6-APB, chemical name 6-(2-Aminopropil)Benzofurano, Lista Nacional. The entry carries the Lista Nacional alone, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 traces to no United Nations schedule, so whether Penal Code article 376 reaches it was not established. [Certain] as to the listing, not established as to the offence.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 39, 6-APB, chemical name 6-(2-Aminopropil)Benzofurano, Lista Nacional. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and the entry read for this substance carries the Lista Nacional alone, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 traces to no United Nations schedule. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Entry 22, 4-APB, is a separate national listing and is not this row.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 39, 6-APB, chemical name 6-(2-Aminopropil)Benzofurano, Lista Nacional. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 39, 6-APB, chemical name 6-(2-Aminopropil)Benzofurano, Lista Nacional. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for 7-hidroximitraginina or 7-OH-mitragynine as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for 7-hidroximitraginina or 7-OH-mitragynine. Anexo Técnico 1 numbers its 469 entries consecutively from 1 to 469 with no gap, so the absence was confirmed by reading the whole of it: a sweep of every entry name and every chemical name returns no hit for this substance.. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] There is no entry beginning with 7 anywhere in the annex, and no mitragynine entry either, so both the numeric position and the M position were read.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returning no hit for it, 5F-PB-22, and entry 39, 6-APB, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returns no hit for it. [Certain] Corrected in this pass: an earlier version of this cell named the two entries either side of where the term would sort. That pair was computed on the assumption that the annex sorts on the printed string, and it does not. It sorts ignoring hyphens, spaces and punctuation, which an independent re-parse demonstrated on two runs of the instrument, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, 2-Metil-AP-237, and Nicocodina, Nicodicodina, Nicomorfina, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, N-metilefedrina, Norcodeína. The neighbour pair is withdrawn. The absence itself is unchanged and rests on a complete reading of all 469 entries, which does not depend on the sort order. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Adderall

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 103, Anfetamina, Lista Verde, Lista II, entry 169, Dexanfetamina, chemical name (+)-alfa-metilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II, and entry 277, Lisdexanfetamina, Lista Nacional. Two of those three entries, 103 Anfetamina and 169 Dexanfetamina, carry the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches those two on the article's own words. [Certain] Entry 277, Lisdexanfetamina, carries the Lista Nacional and not the Lista Verde, and the earlier wording of this cell said the entry carries the Lista Verde in the singular over all three. On this corpus's own tiering a Lista Nacional entry is one for which whether Penal Code article 376 reaches it was not established, so no article 376 reach is asserted for the lisdexamfetamine entry. Corrected in this pass.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 103, Anfetamina, Lista Verde, Lista II, entry 169, Dexanfetamina, chemical name (+)-alfa-metilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II, and entry 277, Lisdexanfetamina, Lista Nacional. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] The brand is not an entry. Its amfetamine and dexamfetamine salts are, and the prodrug lisdexanfetamine is listed separately.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 103, Anfetamina, Lista Verde, Lista II, entry 169, Dexanfetamina, chemical name (+)-alfa-metilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II, and entry 277, Lisdexanfetamina, Lista Nacional. Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Lisdexanfetamina dimesilato on its human list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 103, Anfetamina, Lista Verde, Lista II, entry 169, Dexanfetamina, chemical name (+)-alfa-metilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II, and entry 277, Lisdexanfetamina, Lista Nacional. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Alcohol

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for alcohol, etanol or alcohol etílico as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for alcohol, etanol or alcohol etílico. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 76, AH-7921, and entry 77, Alfacetilmetadol. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] Alcohol is regulated by Ley 30 de 1986 outside the estupefacientes lists. Chapter III of that law, articles 14 to 19, carries the sale, labelling and advertising rules, article 16 requiring every container to print the legend el exceso de alcohol es perjudicial para la salud, and article 5 of Ley 124 de 1994 repealed and replaced the age provision in article 14.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 76, AH-7921, and entry 77, Alfacetilmetadol, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 76, AH-7921, and entry 77, Alfacetilmetadol. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned hits only inside 1-piperazineethanol and a methanol, and no standalone entry. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Amanita muscaria

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for Amanita muscaria, muscimol or acido iboténico as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for Amanita muscaria, muscimol or acido iboténico. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 329, MT-45, and entry 330, N,N-Dimetilanfetamina. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] The acido block, entries 48 to 70, was also read and carries no acido iboténico between entry 67, Ácido Fenilacético, and entry 69, Ácido Lisérgico. No fungus is named anywhere in the annex.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 329, MT-45, and entry 330, N,N-Dimetilanfetamina, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 329, MT-45, and entry 330, N,N-Dimetilanfetamina. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 103, Anfetamina, chemical name (±)-alfa-metilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 103, Anfetamina, chemical name (±)-alfa-metilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Anchored at the start of the entry name, so it is not entry 302 Metanfetamina, entry 270 Levanfetamina or entry 119 Brolanfetamina.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 103, Anfetamina, chemical name (±)-alfa-metilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 103, Anfetamina, chemical name (±)-alfa-metilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: Not scheduled, and named in the offence anyway. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for nitrito de amilo or any other alkyl nitrite as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution, but Penal Code article 376 prices the offence by grams of nitrato de amilo in both of its graduated paragraphs, at 60 g and at 500 g. The statute writes nitrato, a nitrate, where the substance is a nitrito, a nitrite, and that divergence is the statute's own and is not corrected here. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 60 g of nitrato de amilo and to 96 to 144 months up to 500 g, the article writing nitrato where the substance sold as poppers is a nitrito. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those figures are the ones the article prints. Whether a given product answers the statute's words was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for nitrito de amilo or nitrito amílico. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 345, Nitrazepam, and entry 346, N-Metilefedrina. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] It is absent from the schedule and named in the offence. Penal Code article 376 writes nitrato de amilo in both of its graduated paragraphs, at 60 g and at 500 g, so the article reaches this substance by name even though no annex entry does. The statute writes nitrato, a nitrate, while the substance sold as poppers is a nitrito, a nitrite, and that difference is the statute's own and is not corrected here.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 345, Nitrazepam, and entry 346, N-Metilefedrina, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 345, Nitrazepam, and entry 346, N-Metilefedrina. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, does not name the brew or either plant and lists its active alkaloid at entry 193, DMT, Lista Verde, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 193, DMT, Lista Verde, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] The brew is not an entry and neither Banisteriopsis caapi nor Psychotria viridis is named. The route is the listed constituent, and the harmala alkaloids are not listed at all.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 193, DMT, Lista Verde, Lista I. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 193, DMT, Lista Verde, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled, resolved member by member. All six members of this class among the 88 carry their own entry in Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026: Alprazolam at entry 93, Clonazepam at 147, Diazepam at 173, Lorazepam at 280, Etizolam at 217 and Nimetazepam at 344, every one of them on the Lista Verde, Lista IV. The class label itself is not an entry. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] The member-by-member check was run and every one of the six members among the 88 was found, so this row does not rest on a class reading. Each member entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so article 376 reaches each of them on the article's own words. The annex lists about forty further benzodiazepines that are not among the 88, among them bromazepam, clobazam, clordiazepóxido, flunitrazepam, midazolam, oxazepam and triazolam. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. Anexo Técnico 3 names Alprazolam, Clonazepam, Diazepam and Lorazepam on its human medicamentos de control especial list, and article 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 extends that control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing them and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Etizolam and nimetazepam are on no Anexo Técnico 3 list, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for those two. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. The six members of this class among the 88 are listed at entries 93, 147, 173, 217, 280 and 344. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 125, Buprenorfina, Lista Verde, Lista III. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 125, Buprenorfina, Lista Verde, Lista III. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 125, Buprenorfina, Lista Verde, Lista III. Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Buprenorfina on its human list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 125, Buprenorfina, Lista Verde, Lista III. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Caffeine

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for cafeína or 1,3,7-trimetilxantina as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for cafeína or 1,3,7-trimetilxantina. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 133, Butriptilina, and entry 134, Camazepam. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 133, Butriptilina, and entry 134, Camazepam, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 133, Butriptilina, and entry 134, Camazepam. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Cannabinol

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for cannabinol, canabinol or CBN as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for cannabinol, canabinol or CBN. Anexo Técnico 1 numbers its 469 entries consecutively from 1 to 469 with no gap, so the absence was confirmed by reading the whole of it: a sweep of every entry name and every chemical name returns no hit for this substance.. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because cannabinol is a distinct cannabinoid rather than an isomer or a stereochemical variant of tetrahidrocannabinol, so neither the delta-THC entries nor the Lista Verde stereoisomer rule reaches it. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] Entries 432 to 438 list seven tetrahidrocannabinol forms and entry 256 lists hexahydrocannabinol, and cannabinol is none of them. The 0.2 per cent rule inside entry 135 is written about THC, its isomers and its acid forms, so it does not reach this compound either.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returning no hit for it, Cannabis, and entry 136, Carfentanilo, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returns no hit for it. [Certain] Corrected in this pass: an earlier version of this cell named the two entries either side of where the term would sort. That pair was computed on the assumption that the annex sorts on the printed string, and it does not. It sorts ignoring hyphens, spaces and punctuation, which an independent re-parse demonstrated on two runs of the instrument, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, 2-Metil-AP-237, and Nicocodina, Nicodicodina, Nicomorfina, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, N-metilefedrina, Norcodeína. The neighbour pair is withdrawn. The absence itself is unchanged and rests on a complete reading of all 469 entries, which does not depend on the sort order. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned hits only inside the longer names hexahydrocannabinol and tetrahydrocannabinol, which is the substring trap this row is most exposed to, and no standalone entry. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 135, Cannabis, Lista Amarilla, Lista (I y IV), and entry 415, Resina, Extractos y Tinturas de Cannabis, Lista Amarilla, Lista (I y IV). The entry carries the Lista Amarilla, the list of narcotic drugs under international control, and Penal Code article 376 names this substance in its own graduated paragraphs, so the offence reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 135, Cannabis, Lista Amarilla, Lista (I y IV), and entry 415, Resina, Extractos y Tinturas de Cannabis, Lista Amarilla, Lista (I y IV). Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 1,000 g of marihuana or 200 g of hachís and to 96 to 144 months up to 10,000 g of marihuana or 3,000 g of hachís. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. The 20 g marihuana figure and the 5 g hachís figure are the printed ones. [Certain] The entry 135 text covers the flowering or fruiting tops of the cannabis plant, excluding the seeds and the leaves not attached to the tops, from which the resin has not been extracted, and expressly includes cannabis derivatives containing THC, its isomers and acid forms, at or above 0.2 per cent. Penal Code article 375 punishes cultivating, keeping or financing plantaciones with 96 to 216 months, and 64 to 108 months for 20 to 100 plants, while Ley 30 article 2(ñ) defines a plantación as more than twenty plants; articles 12 and 14 of Ley 1787 de 2016 added an exemption to Penal Code articles 375 and 377 for licensed medical and scientific cannabis use.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 135, Cannabis, Lista Amarilla, Lista (I y IV), and entry 415, Resina, Extractos y Tinturas de Cannabis, Lista Amarilla, Lista (I y IV). Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Tetrahidrocannabinol (THC) on its human list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 135, Cannabis, Lista Amarilla, Lista (I y IV), and entry 415, Resina, Extractos y Tinturas de Cannabis, Lista Amarilla, Lista (I y IV). [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Cathinone

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 139, Catinona, chemical name (-)-(S)-2-aminopropiofenona, Lista Verde, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 139, Catinona, chemical name (-)-(S)-2-aminopropiofenona, Lista Verde, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 139, Catinona, chemical name (-)-(S)-2-aminopropiofenona, Lista Verde, Lista I. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 139, Catinona, chemical name (-)-(S)-2-aminopropiofenona, Lista Verde, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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CBD

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for cannabidiol, canabidiol or CBD as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for cannabidiol, canabidiol or CBD. Anexo Técnico 1 numbers its 469 entries consecutively from 1 to 469 with no gap, so the absence was confirmed by reading the whole of it: a sweep of every entry name and every chemical name returns no hit for this substance.. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because cannabidiol is a distinct cannabinoid rather than an isomer or a stereochemical variant of tetrahidrocannabinol. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] Entry 135 is not silent about non-psychoactive derivatives. Its own text says that for the acquisition of non-psychoactive cannabis derivatives the procedures in Resolución 1478 de 2006, or the rules replacing it, do not apply, and it brings within the entry cannabis derivatives containing THC, its isomers and acid forms, at or above 0.2 per cent. So a CBD preparation at or above that THC content falls inside the cannabis entry.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returning no hit for it, Cannabis, and entry 136, Carfentanilo, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returns no hit for it. [Certain] Corrected in this pass: an earlier version of this cell named the two entries either side of where the term would sort. That pair was computed on the assumption that the annex sorts on the printed string, and it does not. It sorts ignoring hyphens, spaces and punctuation, which an independent re-parse demonstrated on two runs of the instrument, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, 2-Metil-AP-237, and Nicocodina, Nicodicodina, Nicomorfina, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, N-metilefedrina, Norcodeína. The neighbour pair is withdrawn. The absence itself is unchanged and rests on a complete reading of all 469 entries, which does not depend on the sort order. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 147, Clonazepam, chemical name 5-(o-clorofenil)-1,3-dihidro-7-nitro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 147, Clonazepam, chemical name 5-(o-clorofenil)-1,3-dihidro-7-nitro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 147, Clonazepam, chemical name 5-(o-clorofenil)-1,3-dihidro-7-nitro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Clonazepam on its human list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 147, Clonazepam, chemical name 5-(o-clorofenil)-1,3-dihidro-7-nitro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 158, Cocaína, chemical name éster metílico de la benzoilecgonina, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Amarilla, the list of narcotic drugs under international control, and Penal Code article 376 names this substance in its own graduated paragraphs, so the offence reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 158, Cocaína, chemical name éster metílico de la benzoilecgonina, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 100 g of cocaine or a cocaine-based substance and to 96 to 144 months up to 2,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. The 1 g figure covers this substance on the face of article 2(j). [Certain] Entry 157, Coca (Hoja de), is the leaf and is a separate entry; entry 201, Ecgonina, is a third.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 158, Cocaína, chemical name éster metílico de la benzoilecgonina, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. Anexo Técnico 2 classes Cocaína among the eleven substances that are a monopolio del Estado, so import and sale run exclusively through the Fondo. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 158, Cocaína, chemical name éster metílico de la benzoilecgonina, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Codeine

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 159, Codeína, chemical name 3-metilmorfina, a derivative of morphine and an alkaloid found in opium and in poppy straw, Lista Amarilla, Lista II. The entry carries the Lista Amarilla, the list of narcotic drugs under international control, and the graduated paragraphs of article 376 price the offence by grams of derivados de la amapola, which is this family. The article's qualifying clause names the schedules of the 1971 Convention rather than those of the 1961 one, so the drafting is not clean on this point. [Likely]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 159, Codeína, chemical name 3-metilmorfina, a derivative of morphine and an alkaloid found in opium and in poppy straw, Lista Amarilla, Lista II. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 20 g of derivados de la amapola and to 96 to 144 months up to 60 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Anchored at the start of the entry name, so it is not entry 182 Dihidrocodeína, entry 350 Norcodeína, entry 341 Nicocodina or entry 45 Acetildihidrocodeína, each of which is its own entry.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 159, Codeína, chemical name 3-metilmorfina, a derivative of morphine and an alkaloid found in opium and in poppy straw, Lista Amarilla, Lista II. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 159, Codeína, chemical name 3-metilmorfina, a derivative of morphine and an alkaloid found in opium and in poppy straw, Lista Amarilla, Lista II. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, carries no entry for the base form under any name and lists the parent substance at entry 158, Cocaína, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Amarilla, the list of narcotic drugs under international control, and Penal Code article 376 names this substance in its own graduated paragraphs, so the offence reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 158, Cocaína, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 100 g of cocaine or a cocaine-based substance and to 96 to 144 months up to 2,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. The 1 g figure covers this substance on the face of article 2(j). [Certain] Crack is the freebase form of cocaine and has no entry of its own. Article 2(j) and article 376 both write cocaine or any cocaine-based substance, which is the wording that reaches it. [Certain] One thing this cell deliberately does NOT carry, said here rather than left as a silence: the second and third paragraphs of article 376 set a separate figure for each of seven substance families, and the live cell for this row recited all of them. This cell quotes only the cocaine limb, because cocaine is this row's substance. The other figures are real and are article 376's own words, but they price a different substance, and quoting them here would invite a reader to measure this row against a threshold that does not govern it. Removed in this pass for that reason and not by oversight.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 158, Cocaína, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. Anexo Técnico 2 classes Cocaína among the eleven substances that are a monopolio del Estado, so import and sale run exclusively through the Fondo. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 158, Cocaína, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 436, Tetrahidrocannabinol Delta-8-THC, chemical name (6aR,10aR)-6a,7,10,10a-tetrahidro-6,6,9-trimetil-3-pentil-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pirano-1-ol y sus formas ácidas, Lista Verde, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 436, Tetrahidrocannabinol Delta-8-THC, chemical name (6aR,10aR)-6a,7,10,10a-tetrahidro-6,6,9-trimetil-3-pentil-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pirano-1-ol y sus formas ácidas, Lista Verde, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Entries 432 to 438 list the delta-10, delta-6a(10a), delta-6a(7), delta-7, delta-8, delta-9(11) and THC forms separately, and entry 166 lists delta-9 tetrahidrocannabinol y sus variantes estereoquímicas.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 436, Tetrahidrocannabinol Delta-8-THC, chemical name (6aR,10aR)-6a,7,10,10a-tetrahidro-6,6,9-trimetil-3-pentil-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pirano-1-ol y sus formas ácidas, Lista Verde, Lista I. Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Tetrahidrocannabinol (THC) on its human list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 436, Tetrahidrocannabinol Delta-8-THC, chemical name (6aR,10aR)-6a,7,10,10a-tetrahidro-6,6,9-trimetil-3-pentil-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pirano-1-ol y sus formas ácidas, Lista Verde, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Diazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 173, Diazepam, chemical name 7-cloro-1,3-dihidro-1-metil-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 173, Diazepam, chemical name 7-cloro-1,3-dihidro-1-metil-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 173, Diazepam, chemical name 7-cloro-1,3-dihidro-1-metil-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Diazepam on its human list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 173, Diazepam, chemical name 7-cloro-1,3-dihidro-1-metil-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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DMT

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 193, DMT, chemical name 3-[2-(dimetilamino)etil]indol, Lista Verde, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 193, DMT, chemical name 3-[2-(dimetilamino)etil]indol, Lista Verde, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 193, DMT, chemical name 3-[2-(dimetilamino)etil]indol, Lista Verde, Lista I. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 193, DMT, chemical name 3-[2-(dimetilamino)etil]indol, Lista Verde, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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DOM

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 422, STP, DOM, chemical name 2,5-dimetoxi-alfa,4-dimetilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 422, STP, DOM, chemical name 2,5-dimetoxi-alfa,4-dimetilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] The scan prints the entry as STP, DON, but its chemical name is that of DOM, and entries 194 DOC, 195 DOET and 196 DOI sit separately.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 422, STP, DOM, chemical name 2,5-dimetoxi-alfa,4-dimetilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 422, STP, DOM, chemical name 2,5-dimetoxi-alfa,4-dimetilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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DXM

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for dextrometorfano or dextromethorphan as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for dextrometorfano or dextromethorphan. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 169, Dexanfetamina, and entry 170, Dextromoramida. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] Entry 171, Dextropropoxifeno, is listed and is a different compound, and the morphinan entries 274 Levometorfano, 411 Racemetorfano and 413 Racemorfano are not this one either.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 169, Dexanfetamina, and entry 170, Dextromoramida, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 169, Dexanfetamina, and entry 170, Dextromoramida. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned four hits, and all four CONFIRM the absence rather than defeating it: the Yellow List carries a footnote, printed twice, reading Dextromethorphan and dextrorphan are not under international control. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 202, Efedrina, chemical name [R-(R*,S*)]-alfa-[1-(metilamino)etil]-bencenometanol, Lista Roja, Cuadro I. The entry carries the Lista Roja, Cuadro I, the list of precursors and chemicals frequently used in illicit manufacture, so the offence that fits is Penal Code article 382 and not article 376. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 202, Efedrina, chemical name [R-(R*,S*)]-alfa-[1-(metilamino)etil]-bencenometanol, Lista Roja, Cuadro I. Penal Code article 382, as replaced by article 12 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, possession or diversion from lawful use of substances serving to process cocaine, heroin, synthetic drugs and other dependence-producing narcotics, including the substances in tables one and two of the 1988 Convention, with 96 to 180 months and a fine of 3,000 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Article 384 doubles the minimum of that in its listed aggravations. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Entries 346 N-Metilefedrina, 347 N-Metilpseudoefedrina, 352 Norefedrina and 421 Seudoefedrina are separate precursor entries.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 202, Efedrina, chemical name [R-(R*,S*)]-alfa-[1-(metilamino)etil]-bencenometanol, Lista Roja, Cuadro I. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 202, Efedrina, chemical name [R-(R*,S*)]-alfa-[1-(metilamino)etil]-bencenometanol, Lista Roja, Cuadro I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Etizolam

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 217, Etizolam, Lista Verde, Lista IV. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 217, Etizolam, Lista Verde, Lista IV. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 217, Etizolam, Lista Verde, Lista IV. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 217, Etizolam, Lista Verde, Lista IV. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 238, Fentanilo, chemical name 1-fenetil-4-N-propionilanilinopiperidina, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Amarilla, the list of narcotic drugs under international control. Article 376 opens on a sustancia estupefaciente, which covers it, while its qualifying clause names the schedules of the 1971 Convention, so the drafting is not clean on this point. [Likely]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 238, Fentanilo, chemical name 1-fenetil-4-N-propionilanilinopiperidina, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Anchored at the start of the entry name, so it is not entry 44 Acetil-alfa-metilfentanilo, entry 84 Alfa-Metilfentanilo, entry 353 Norfentanilo or any of the other twenty or so fentanyl analogues listed separately.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 238, Fentanilo, chemical name 1-fenetil-4-N-propionilanilinopiperidina, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Fentanilo and Fentanilo Citrato on its human list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 238, Fentanilo, chemical name 1-fenetil-4-N-propionilanilinopiperidina, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Gabapentin

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for gabapentina or gabapentin as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for gabapentina or gabapentin. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 250, Furetidina, and entry 251, Glutetimida. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] The whole G block in the annex is a single entry, Glutetimida, so the position where this name would sort was read directly.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 250, Furetidina, and entry 251, Glutetimida, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 250, Furetidina, and entry 251, Glutetimida. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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GBL

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for GBL, gamma-butirolactona or gamma-butyrolactone as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for GBL, gamma-butirolactona or gamma-butyrolactone. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 250, Furetidina, and entry 251, Glutetimida. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the Lista Verde rules extend a listed substance only to its salts and stereoisomers, and a lactone is neither a salt nor a stereoisomer of the acid. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] The whole G block in the annex is a single entry, Glutetimida. Entry 68, Ácido Gamma-Hidroxibutírico (GHB), is listed and GBL is not, although GBL converts to GHB in the body. Penal Code article 376 names ketamina y GHB in both graduated paragraphs and does not name GBL. A dossier that recorded GBL as a verified placement was wrong on the instrument's own text.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 250, Furetidina, and entry 251, Glutetimida, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 250, Furetidina, and entry 251, Glutetimida. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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GHB

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 68, Ácido Gamma-Hidroxibutírico (GHB), chemical name acido gamma-hidroxibutirico, Lista Verde, Lista II. Penal Code article 376 names this substance in its own graduated paragraphs, so the offence reaches it whichever list the entry carries. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 68, Ácido Gamma-Hidroxibutírico (GHB), chemical name acido gamma-hidroxibutirico, Lista Verde, Lista II. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 60 g of ketamina y GHB and to 96 to 144 months up to 500 g, the article naming ketamina y GHB in both paragraphs. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Article 376 names ketamina y GHB in both of its graduated paragraphs, so the offence reaches this substance on the article's own words as well as through the Lista Verde.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 68, Ácido Gamma-Hidroxibutírico (GHB), chemical name acido gamma-hidroxibutirico, Lista Verde, Lista II. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 68, Ácido Gamma-Hidroxibutírico (GHB), chemical name acido gamma-hidroxibutirico, Lista Verde, Lista II. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Heroin

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 255, Heroína, chemical name Diacetilmorfina, Lista Amarilla, Lista (I y IV). The entry carries the Lista Amarilla, the list of narcotic drugs under international control, and the graduated paragraphs of article 376 price the offence by grams of derivados de la amapola, which is this family. The article's qualifying clause names the schedules of the 1971 Convention rather than those of the 1961 one, so the drafting is not clean on this point. [Likely]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 255, Heroína, chemical name Diacetilmorfina, Lista Amarilla, Lista (I y IV). Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 20 g of derivados de la amapola and to 96 to 144 months up to 60 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 255, Heroína, chemical name Diacetilmorfina, Lista Amarilla, Lista (I y IV). Anexo Técnico 2 classes Diamorfina o Heroína among the eleven substances that are a monopolio del Estado, so import and sale run exclusively through the Fondo. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 255, Heroína, chemical name Diacetilmorfina, Lista Amarilla, Lista (I y IV). [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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HHC

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 256, Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC), chemical name 6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6a,7,8,9,10,10a-hexahydro-6H-benzo[c]chromen-1-ol, Lista Verde, Lista II. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Likely] Downgraded from [Certain] in this pass. That source note names the green list 28th edition of 2017 and the yellow list 56th edition of July 2017, and this resolution is dated 27 January 2026 and provides in its own article 3 for substances incluidas por primera vez en el Anexo Técnico No. 1. Article 376 requires the substance to sit in cuadros one to four of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and for an entry postdating the 28th edition that mapping rests on the Ministry's own placement rather than on the cited authority. The placement in the annex is [Certain]; the article 376 reach that follows from it is [Likely].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 256, Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC), chemical name 6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6a,7,8,9,10,10a-hexahydro-6H-benzo[c]chromen-1-ol, Lista Verde, Lista II. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] The entry is spelled in English inside a Spanish table, Hexahydrocannabinol, which is why a search on the Spanish spelling hexahidrocannabinol returns nothing.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 256, Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC), chemical name 6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6a,7,8,9,10,10a-hexahydro-6H-benzo[c]chromen-1-ol, Lista Verde, Lista II. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 256, Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC), chemical name 6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6a,7,8,9,10,10a-hexahydro-6H-benzo[c]chromen-1-ol, Lista Verde, Lista II. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 258, Hidrocodona, chemical name Dihidrocodeinona, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Amarilla, the list of narcotic drugs under international control, and the graduated paragraphs of article 376 price the offence by grams of derivados de la amapola, which is this family. The article's qualifying clause names the schedules of the 1971 Convention rather than those of the 1961 one, so the drafting is not clean on this point. [Likely]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 258, Hidrocodona, chemical name Dihidrocodeinona, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 20 g of derivados de la amapola and to 96 to 144 months up to 60 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 258, Hidrocodona, chemical name Dihidrocodeinona, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 258, Hidrocodona, chemical name Dihidrocodeinona, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Ketamine

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 267, Ketamina, Lista Nacional. Penal Code article 376 names this substance in its own graduated paragraphs, so the offence reaches it whichever list the entry carries. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 267, Ketamina, Lista Nacional. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 60 g of ketamina y GHB and to 96 to 144 months up to 500 g, the article naming ketamina y GHB in both paragraphs. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] The entry carries the Lista Nacional only, but article 376 names ketamina y GHB in both of its graduated paragraphs, so the offence reaches this substance on the article's own words. Entry 207, Esketamina, is separate, and the veterinary list in Anexo Técnico 3 carries ketamine alone and in two fixed combinations.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 267, Ketamina, Lista Nacional. Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Ketamina Clorhidrato on its human list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 267, Ketamina, Lista Nacional. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Khat

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, does not name Catha edulis and lists its two alkaloids at entry 139, Catinona, Lista Verde, Lista I, and entry 138, Catina, Lista Verde, Lista III. Both of those entries carry the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches each of them on the article's own words, entry 139 through Lista I and entry 138 through Lista III. [Certain] The earlier wording of this cell said the entry in the singular over a two entry citation sitting in two different schedules. Corrected in this pass.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 139, Catinona, Lista Verde, Lista I, and entry 138, Catina, Lista Verde, Lista III. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] The plant Catha edulis is not itself an entry. Its two alkaloids are, on two different schedules, so the leaf is reached through what it contains rather than by name.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 139, Catinona, Lista Verde, Lista I, and entry 138, Catina, Lista Verde, Lista III. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 139, Catinona, Lista Verde, Lista I, and entry 138, Catina, Lista Verde, Lista III. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Kratom

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for kratom or Mitragyna speciosa as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for kratom or Mitragyna speciosa. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 268, Ketazolam, and entry 269, Lefetamina. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] The M block was also read and carries no mitraginina between entry 321, Mirtazapina, and entry 322, MMDA. No plant of this genus is named anywhere in the annex.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 268, Ketazolam, and entry 269, Lefetamina, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 268, Ketazolam, and entry 269, Lefetamina. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 280, Lorazepam, chemical name 7-cloro-5-(o-clorofenil)-1,3-dihidro-3-hidroxi-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 280, Lorazepam, chemical name 7-cloro-5-(o-clorofenil)-1,3-dihidro-3-hidroxi-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 280, Lorazepam, chemical name 7-cloro-5-(o-clorofenil)-1,3-dihidro-3-hidroxi-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Lorazepam on its human list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 280, Lorazepam, chemical name 7-cloro-5-(o-clorofenil)-1,3-dihidro-3-hidroxi-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for ergina, ergine or LSA as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for ergina, ergine or LSA. Anexo Técnico 1 numbers its 469 entries consecutively from 1 to 469 with no gap, so the absence was confirmed by reading the whole of it: a sweep of every entry name and every chemical name returns no hit for this substance.. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] The two ergoline entries either side of this position, ergometrina and ergotamina, are both on the Lista Roja, Cuadro I as precursors, and ergina is not among them. Entry 1, (+)-Lisérgida, and entry 69, Ácido Lisérgico, are different compounds. A dossier that recorded an entry reading ergina was wrong on the instrument's own text.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returning no hit for it, Ergometrina, and entry 204, Ergotamina, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returns no hit for it. [Certain] Corrected in this pass: an earlier version of this cell named the two entries either side of where the term would sort. That pair was computed on the assumption that the annex sorts on the printed string, and it does not. It sorts ignoring hyphens, spaces and punctuation, which an independent re-parse demonstrated on two runs of the instrument, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, 2-Metil-AP-237, and Nicocodina, Nicodicodina, Nicomorfina, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, N-metilefedrina, Norcodeína. The neighbour pair is withdrawn. The absence itself is unchanged and rests on a complete reading of all 469 entries, which does not depend on the sort order. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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LSD

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 1, (+)-Lisérgida, chemical name 9,10-didehidro-N,N-dietil-6-metilergolina-8-carboxamida, Lista Verde, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 1, (+)-Lisérgida, chemical name 9,10-didehidro-N,N-dietil-6-metilergolina-8-carboxamida, Lista Verde, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] The instrument does not print the string LSD anywhere; the entry is under the international non-proprietary name lisergida, and a separate entry 69, Ácido Lisérgico, sits on the Lista Roja, Cuadro I as a precursor.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 1, (+)-Lisérgida, chemical name 9,10-didehidro-N,N-dietil-6-metilergolina-8-carboxamida, Lista Verde, Lista I. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 1, (+)-Lisérgida, chemical name 9,10-didehidro-N,N-dietil-6-metilergolina-8-carboxamida, Lista Verde, Lista I. [Certain] One reading note, flagged here because this cell set flags every other OCR repair and silently made these: the printed chemical column of entry 1 reads metilergolina-Sp-carboxamida. The scan has damaged the locant. It is read here as 8, which is what lysergide's chemical name requires, and the repair is stated rather than made silently. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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MDA

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 430, Tenanfetamina (MDA), chemical name alfa-metil-3,4-(metilendioxi)fenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 430, Tenanfetamina (MDA), chemical name alfa-metil-3,4-(metilendioxi)fenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] The entry is under the international non-proprietary name tenanfetamina, with MDA in parentheses. Entry 286, MDE, N-Etil MDA, and entry 338, N-Hidroxi MDA, are separate entries. [Certain] One thing this cell deliberately does NOT carry, said here rather than left as a silence: the second and third paragraphs of article 376 set a separate figure for each of seven substance families, and the live cell for this row recited all of them. This cell quotes only the droga sintética limb, because that is this row's family. The other figures are real and are article 376's own words, but they price a different substance, and quoting them here would invite a reader to measure this row against a threshold that does not govern it. Removed in this pass for that reason and not by oversight.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 430, Tenanfetamina (MDA), chemical name alfa-metil-3,4-(metilendioxi)fenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 430, Tenanfetamina (MDA), chemical name alfa-metil-3,4-(metilendioxi)fenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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MDMA

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 287, MDMA, chemical name (±)-N,alfa-dimetil-3,4-(metilendioxi)fenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 287, MDMA, chemical name (±)-N,alfa-dimetil-3,4-(metilendioxi)fenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 287, MDMA, chemical name (±)-N,alfa-dimetil-3,4-(metilendioxi)fenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 287, MDMA, chemical name (±)-N,alfa-dimetil-3,4-(metilendioxi)fenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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MDPV

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 290, MDPV, chemical name (R/S)-1-(Benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-il)-2-(pirrolidin-1-il)pentan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 290, MDPV, chemical name (R/S)-1-(Benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-il)-2-(pirrolidin-1-il)pentan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 290, MDPV, chemical name (R/S)-1-(Benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-il)-2-(pirrolidin-1-il)pentan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 290, MDPV, chemical name (R/S)-1-(Benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-il)-2-(pirrolidin-1-il)pentan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Memantine

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for memantina or memantine as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for memantina or memantine. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 294, Mefenorex, and entry 295, Meprobamato. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 294, Mefenorex, and entry 295, Meprobamato, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 294, Mefenorex, and entry 295, Meprobamato. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 293, Mefedrona, chemical name (RS)-2-metilamino-1-(4-metilfenil)propan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 293, Mefedrona, chemical name (RS)-2-metilamino-1-(4-metilfenil)propan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 293, Mefedrona, chemical name (RS)-2-metilamino-1-(4-metilfenil)propan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 293, Mefedrona, chemical name (RS)-2-metilamino-1-(4-metilfenil)propan-1-ona, Lista Verde, Lista II. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Mescaline

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 296, Mescalina, chemical name 3,4,5-trimetoxifenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 296, Mescalina, chemical name 3,4,5-trimetoxifenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 296, Mescalina, chemical name 3,4,5-trimetoxifenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 296, Mescalina, chemical name 3,4,5-trimetoxifenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Methadone

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 300, Metadona, chemical name 6-dimetilamino-4,4-difenil-3-heptanona, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Amarilla, the list of narcotic drugs under international control. Article 376 opens on a sustancia estupefaciente, which covers it, while its qualifying clause names the schedules of the 1971 Convention, so the drafting is not clean on this point. [Likely]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 300, Metadona, chemical name 6-dimetilamino-4,4-difenil-3-heptanona, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Entry 301, Metadona, Intermediario de la, is separate.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 300, Metadona, chemical name 6-dimetilamino-4,4-difenil-3-heptanona, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Metadona Clorhidrato on its state monopoly medicines list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Anexo Técnico 2 classes Metadona among the eleven substances that are a monopolio del Estado, so import and sale run exclusively through the Fondo. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 300, Metadona, chemical name 6-dimetilamino-4,4-difenil-3-heptanona, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 302, Metanfetamina, chemical name (+)-(S)-N,alfa-dimetilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 302, Metanfetamina, chemical name (+)-(S)-N,alfa-dimetilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Entry 410, Racemato de Metanfetamina, and entry 273, Levometanfetamina, are separate entries.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 302, Metanfetamina, chemical name (+)-(S)-N,alfa-dimetilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 302, Metanfetamina, chemical name (+)-(S)-N,alfa-dimetilfenetilamina, Lista Verde, Lista II. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 299, Metacualona, chemical name 2-metil-3-o-tolil-4(3H)-quinazolinona, Lista Verde, Lista II. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 299, Metacualona, chemical name 2-metil-3-o-tolil-4(3H)-quinazolinona, Lista Verde, Lista II. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. The 2 g metacualona figure is printed in article 2(j), and note that Ley 1453 de 2011 removed metacualona from article 376, which now says droga sintética where the earlier text said metacualona, so the two instruments no longer use the same word for this substance. [Certain] Entry 291, Meclocualona, is a separate entry.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 299, Metacualona, chemical name 2-metil-3-o-tolil-4(3H)-quinazolinona, Lista Verde, Lista II. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 299, Metacualona, chemical name 2-metil-3-o-tolil-4(3H)-quinazolinona, Lista Verde, Lista II. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Methylone

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 310, Metilona, Lista Verde, Lista II. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 310, Metilona, Lista Verde, Lista II. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Entries 187 Dimetilona, 215 Etilona, 224 Eutilona, 176 Dibutilona, 334 N-Etilhexedrona and 336 N-Etilpentilona are separate entries.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 310, Metilona, Lista Verde, Lista II. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 310, Metilona, Lista Verde, Lista II. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 308, Metilfenidato, chemical name metil-alfa-fenil-2-acetato de piperidina, Lista Verde, Lista II. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 308, Metilfenidato, chemical name metil-alfa-fenil-2-acetato de piperidina, Lista Verde, Lista II. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Entry 212, Etilfenidato, is separate.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 308, Metilfenidato, chemical name metil-alfa-fenil-2-acetato de piperidina, Lista Verde, Lista II. Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Metilfenidato Clorhidrato on its state monopoly medicines list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Anexo Técnico 2 classes Metilfenidato among the eleven substances that are a monopolio del Estado, so import and sale run exclusively through the Fondo. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 308, Metilfenidato, chemical name metil-alfa-fenil-2-acetato de piperidina, Lista Verde, Lista II. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Mitragynine

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for mitraginina or mitragynine as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for mitraginina or mitragynine. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 321, Mirtazapina, and entry 322, MMDA. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] The K block was also read and carries no kratom entry between entry 268, Ketazolam, and entry 269, Lefetamina.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 321, Mirtazapina, and entry 322, MMDA, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 321, Mirtazapina, and entry 322, MMDA. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Modafinil

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for modafinilo or modafinil as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for modafinilo or modafinil. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 322, MMDA, and entry 323, Molindona. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] The annex does list a long run of psychiatric medicines on the Lista Nacional, among them molindona, mianserina and mirtazapina, so the absence is not an absence of that kind of medicine from the list. A dossier that recorded an entry reading modafinilo was wrong on the instrument's own text.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 322, MMDA, and entry 323, Molindona, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 322, MMDA, and entry 323, Molindona. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Morphine

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 326, Morfina, chemical name 7,8-didehidro-4,5-epoxi-17-metilmorfinan-3,6-diol, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Amarilla, the list of narcotic drugs under international control, and the graduated paragraphs of article 376 price the offence by grams of derivados de la amapola, which is this family. The article's qualifying clause names the schedules of the 1971 Convention rather than those of the 1961 one, so the drafting is not clean on this point. [Likely]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 326, Morfina, chemical name 7,8-didehidro-4,5-epoxi-17-metilmorfinan-3,6-diol, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 20 g of derivados de la amapola and to 96 to 144 months up to 60 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Anchored at the start of the entry name, so it is not entry 343 Nicomorfina, entry 356 Normorfina, entry 184 Dihidromorfina or entry 306 Metildesorfina. Those four are suffix matches, which anchoring excludes on its own. The entry anchoring does NOT exclude, and which an earlier version of this cell did not name, is entry 327, Morfina, Bromometilato de, chemical name y otros derivados de la morfina con nitrógeno pentavalente, especialmente los derivados de la N-oximorfina, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. A sweep of all 469 entry names found exactly two entries whose name begins with another entry's name, this one and entry 301 Metadona, Intermediario de la. This row is entry 326 and not entry 327. Corrected in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 326, Morfina, chemical name 7,8-didehidro-4,5-epoxi-17-metilmorfinan-3,6-diol, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Morfina Clorhidrato on its state monopoly medicines list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Anexo Técnico 2 classes Morfina among the eleven substances that are a monopolio del Estado, so import and sale run exclusively through the Fondo. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 326, Morfina, chemical name 7,8-didehidro-4,5-epoxi-17-metilmorfinan-3,6-diol, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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MXE

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 315, Metoxetamina (MXE), chemical name 2-(3-metoxifenil)-2-(etilamino)-ciclohexanona, Lista Verde, Lista II. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 315, Metoxetamina (MXE), chemical name 2-(3-metoxifenil)-2-(etilamino)-ciclohexanona, Lista Verde, Lista II. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 315, Metoxetamina (MXE), chemical name 2-(3-metoxifenil)-2-(etilamino)-ciclohexanona, Lista Verde, Lista II. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 315, Metoxetamina (MXE), chemical name 2-(3-metoxifenil)-2-(etilamino)-ciclohexanona, Lista Verde, Lista II. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Nicotine

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for nicotina or nicotine as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for nicotina or nicotine. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 343, Nicomorfina, and entry 344, Nimetazepam. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] The three entries that begin with the letters nico, 341 Nicocodina, 342 Nicodicodina and 343 Nicomorfina, are nicotinyl esters of opioids and not this substance.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 343, Nicomorfina, and entry 344, Nimetazepam, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 343, Nicomorfina, and entry 344, Nimetazepam. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 344, Nimetazepam, chemical name 1,3-dihidro-7-nitro-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 344, Nimetazepam, chemical name 1,3-dihidro-7-nitro-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 344, Nimetazepam, chemical name 1,3-dihidro-7-nitro-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 344, Nimetazepam, chemical name 1,3-dihidro-7-nitro-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Nitrous Oxide

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for óxido nitroso, protóxido de nitrógeno or N2O as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for óxido nitroso, protóxido de nitrógeno or N2O. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 368, Oxicodona, and entry 369, Oximorfona. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] The P block was also read and carries no protóxido between entry 403, Propiram, and entry 405, Protonitaceno. No inhalational anaesthetic gas is named anywhere in the annex.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 368, Oxicodona, and entry 369, Oximorfona, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 368, Oxicodona, and entry 369, Oximorfona. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Opium

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 362, Opio, described as the plant of the species Papaver somniferum L. Lista Amarilla, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Amarilla, the list of narcotic drugs under international control, and the graduated paragraphs of article 376 price the offence by grams of derivados de la amapola, which is this family. The article's qualifying clause names the schedules of the 1971 Convention rather than those of the 1961 one, so the drafting is not clean on this point. [Likely]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 362, Opio, described as the plant of the species Papaver somniferum L. Lista Amarilla, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 20 g of derivados de la amapola and to 96 to 144 months up to 60 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Entry 161, Concentrado de Paja de Adormidera, is separate.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 362, Opio, described as the plant of the species Papaver somniferum L. Lista Amarilla, Lista I. Anexo Técnico 2 classes Opio among the eleven substances that are a monopolio del Estado, so import and sale run exclusively through the Fondo. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 362, Opio, described as the plant of the species Papaver somniferum L. Lista Amarilla, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 368, Oxicodona, chemical name 14-hidroxidihidrocodeinona, a derivative of morphine, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Amarilla, the list of narcotic drugs under international control, and the graduated paragraphs of article 376 price the offence by grams of derivados de la amapola, which is this family. The article's qualifying clause names the schedules of the 1971 Convention rather than those of the 1961 one, so the drafting is not clean on this point. [Likely]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 368, Oxicodona, chemical name 14-hidroxidihidrocodeinona, a derivative of morphine, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 20 g of derivados de la amapola and to 96 to 144 months up to 60 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Entry 369, Oximorfona, is separate.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 368, Oxicodona, chemical name 14-hidroxidihidrocodeinona, a derivative of morphine, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Oxicodona Clorhidrato on its human list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 368, Oxicodona, chemical name 14-hidroxidihidrocodeinona, a derivative of morphine, Lista Amarilla, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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PCP

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 230, Fenciclidina (PCP), chemical name 1-(1-fenilciclohexil)piperidina, Lista Verde, Lista II. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 230, Fenciclidina (PCP), chemical name 1-(1-fenilciclohexil)piperidina, Lista Verde, Lista II. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Entry 20, 3-Metoxifenciclidina, entry 210 Eticiclidina, entry 416 Roliciclidina and entry 431 Tenociclidina are separate entries.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 230, Fenciclidina (PCP), chemical name 1-(1-fenilciclohexil)piperidina, Lista Verde, Lista II. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 230, Fenciclidina (PCP), chemical name 1-(1-fenilciclohexil)piperidina, Lista Verde, Lista II. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Peyote

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, does not name the cactus at all and lists its principal alkaloid at entry 296, Mescalina, Lista Verde, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 296, Mescalina, Lista Verde, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] The cactus Lophophora williamsii is not itself an entry. The route is the listed alkaloid it contains, and entry 91, Allilescalina, is a separate national listing.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 296, Mescalina, Lista Verde, Lista I. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 296, Mescalina, Lista Verde, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Phenibut

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for fenibut, phenibut or acido beta-fenil-gamma-aminobutirico as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for fenibut, phenibut or acido beta-fenil-gamma-aminobutirico. Anexo Técnico 1 numbers its 469 entries consecutively from 1 to 469 with no gap, so the absence was confirmed by reading the whole of it: a sweep of every entry name and every chemical name returns no hit for this substance.. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] The whole fen block, entries 225 to 239, was read and contains no entry for this compound.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returning no hit for it, Fendimetracina, and entry 232, Fenetilina, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returns no hit for it. [Certain] Corrected in this pass: an earlier version of this cell named the two entries either side of where the term would sort. That pair was computed on the assumption that the annex sorts on the printed string, and it does not. It sorts ignoring hyphens, spaces and punctuation, which an independent re-parse demonstrated on two runs of the instrument, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, 2-Metil-AP-237, and Nicocodina, Nicodicodina, Nicomorfina, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, N-metilefedrina, Norcodeína. The neighbour pair is withdrawn. The absence itself is unchanged and rests on a complete reading of all 469 entries, which does not depend on the sort order. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Pink cocaine, cocaína rosada or tusi is a label, not a schedule entry. No entry anywhere in Anexo Técnico 1 carries any of those names, and none would: the words name a street preparation whose composition is not fixed. Confirmed as a label: the legal route runs through what a product is proved to contain, not through the name it is sold under. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because this row is a label and the offence attaches to a named substance. Whether it reaches a given product turns on the analysis. Ketamina is entry 267 on the Lista Nacional, MDMA is entry 287 on the Lista Verde, Lista I, cocaína is entry 158 on the Lista Amarilla, Lista I, and 2C-B is entry 10 on the Lista Verde, Lista II. Whichever of those an analysis proves is the entry that supplies the legal route, and the label supplies none.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. There is no medicinal presentation of a street preparation, so no prescribable form exists. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This row is a label rather than an entry in Anexo Técnico 1. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Poppers

Legal status: Poppers is a label, not a schedule entry. No entry anywhere in Anexo Técnico 1 carries that name or any alkyl nitrite, and the position where nitrito de amilo would sort, between entry 345 Nitrazepam and entry 346 N-Metilefedrina, was read directly. Confirmed as a label: the legal route runs through what a product is proved to contain, not through the name it is sold under. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 60 g of nitrato de amilo and to 96 to 144 months up to 500 g, the article writing nitrato where the substance sold as poppers is a nitrito. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because this row is a label and the offence attaches to a named substance. Whether it reaches a given product turns on the analysis. Penal Code article 376 names nitrato de amilo in both of its graduated paragraphs, at 60 g in the second and at 500 g in the third, so the offence names this class of substance even though the schedule does not. The statute writes nitrato, a nitrate, while the substances sold as poppers are nitritos, nitrites, and that difference is the statute's own and is not corrected here.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. No alkyl nitrite appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This row is a label rather than an entry in Anexo Técnico 1. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for pregabalina or pregabalin as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for pregabalina or pregabalin. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 398, Prazepam, and entry 399, Primidona. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] Primidona, the entry immediately after this position, is listed on the Lista Nacional and is in Anexo Técnico 2 as a monopolio del Estado, so the position was read directly.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 398, Prazepam, and entry 399, Primidona, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 398, Prazepam, and entry 399, Primidona. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 407, Psilocibina, chemical name fosfato dihidrogenado de 3-[2-(dimetilaminoetil)]indol-4-ilo, Lista Verde, Lista I. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 407, Psilocibina, chemical name fosfato dihidrogenado de 3-[2-(dimetilaminoetil)]indol-4-ilo, Lista Verde, Lista I. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] The scan prints the entry as PSILCCIBINA, an optical misreading of an O as a C; the chemical name is psilocybin's. Entry 408, Psilocina, Psilotsina, is separate, and no mushroom species is named anywhere in the annex.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 407, Psilocibina, chemical name fosfato dihidrogenado de 3-[2-(dimetilaminoetil)]indol-4-ilo, Lista Verde, Lista I. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 407, Psilocibina, chemical name fosfato dihidrogenado de 3-[2-(dimetilaminoetil)]indol-4-ilo, Lista Verde, Lista I. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Quetiapine

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for quetiapina or quetiapine as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for quetiapina or quetiapine. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 408, Psilocina, Psilotsina, and entry 409, Quinupramina. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] The annex does list other antipsychotics on the Lista Nacional, among them clozapina at entry 156 and quinupramina at entry 409, so the absence is not an absence of that class from the list.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 408, Psilocina, Psilotsina, and entry 409, Quinupramina, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 408, Psilocina, Psilotsina, and entry 409, Quinupramina. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Salvia divinorum

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, does not name the plant and lists its active principle at entry 418, Salvinorina A, Lista Nacional. The entry carries the Lista Nacional alone, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 traces to no United Nations schedule, so whether Penal Code article 376 reaches it was not established. [Certain] as to the listing, not established as to the offence.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 418, Salvinorina A, Lista Nacional. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and the entry read for this substance carries the Lista Nacional alone, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 traces to no United Nations schedule. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. The plant Salvia divinorum is not itself an entry, but its active diterpene is, on the national list, with its full chemical name printed. A dossier that recorded this row as a verified absence was wrong on the instrument's own text.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 418, Salvinorina A, Lista Nacional. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 418, Salvinorina A, Lista Nacional. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Controlled, and named in an offence of its own. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 lists it at entry 205, Escopolamina, on the Lista Nacional alone, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 traces to no United Nations schedule, so whether Penal Code article 376 reaches it was not established. Penal Code article 383 does name it, and punishes carrying it in a public place without justification. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 205, Escopolamina, Lista Nacional. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and the entry read for this substance carries the Lista Nacional alone, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 traces to no United Nations schedule. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Penal Code article 383 separately punishes carrying escopolamina, or any similar substance able to place a person in a state of defencelessness, in a public place or a place open to the public and without justification, with 16 to 36 months, unless the conduct is an offence carrying a greater penalty. That article names the substance, so it does reach this row.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 205, Escopolamina, Lista Nacional. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 205, Escopolamina, Lista Nacional. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Synthetic cannabinoids or cannabinoides sintéticos is a label, not a schedule entry. No entry anywhere in Anexo Técnico 1 carries that class name. Colombia schedules this family member by member instead. Confirmed as a label: the legal route runs through what a product is proved to contain, not through the name it is sold under. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because this row is a label and the offence attaches to a named substance. Whether it reaches a given product turns on the analysis. At least twenty two members are named individually, among them 5F-AMB at entry 33, 5F-APINACA at 34, 5F-MDMB-PICA at 35, 5F-MDMB-PINACA at 36, 5F-PB-22 at 37, AB-CHMINACA at 40, AB-FUBINACA at 41, AB-PINACA at 42, ADB-BUTINACA at 72, ADB-CHMINACA at 73, ADB-FUBINACA at 74, AM-2201 at 94, AMB-FUBINACA at 95, 4F-MDMB-BINACA at 27, Cumil-4CN-Binaca at 163, Cumil Pegaclone at 164, JWH-018 at 266, MDMB-CHMICA at 288, MDMB-4en-PINACA at 289, UR-144 at 459 and XLR-11 at 463. Most carry the Lista Verde, Lista II. A product is reached only if what it contains is one of the named members, so the class label supplies no route and the analysis does.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. No synthetic cannabinoid appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This row is a label rather than an entry in Anexo Técnico 1. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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THC-P

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for THCP, tetrahidrocannabiforol or delta-9-THCP as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for THCP, tetrahidrocannabiforol or delta-9-THCP. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 431, Tenociclidina (TCP), and entry 432, Tetrahidrocannabinol Delta-10-THC. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because THCP is a homologue with a longer side chain rather than an isomer or a stereochemical variant of tetrahidrocannabinol, so neither the delta-THC entries nor the Lista Verde stereoisomer rule reaches it. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] Entries 432 to 438 name seven tetrahidrocannabinol forms and entry 166 names delta-9 tetrahidrocannabinol y sus variantes estereoquímicas, and this compound is none of them. The 0.2 per cent rule inside entry 135 is written about THC, its isomers and its acid forms, so it does not reach a homologue either.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 431, Tenociclidina (TCP), and entry 432, Tetrahidrocannabinol Delta-10-THC, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 431, Tenociclidina (TCP), and entry 432, Tetrahidrocannabinol Delta-10-THC. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Tobacco

Legal status: Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for tabaco or Nicotiana tabacum as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for tabaco or Nicotiana tabacum. Anexo Técnico 1 numbers its 469 entries consecutively from 1 to 469 with no gap, so the absence was confirmed by reading the whole of it: a sweep of every entry name and every chemical name returns no hit for this substance.. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] Tobacco is regulated by Ley 30 de 1986 outside the estupefacientes lists. Chapter III of that law, articles 14 to 19, carries the sale, labelling and advertising rules, article 17 requiring every packet to print the legend el tabaco es nocivo para la salud, and Ley 1335 de 2009 is the later tobacco control statute, which was not read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returning no hit for it, Tapentadol, and entry 427, Tebacón, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returns no hit for it. [Certain] Corrected in this pass: an earlier version of this cell named the two entries either side of where the term would sort. That pair was computed on the assumption that the annex sorts on the printed string, and it does not. It sorts ignoring hyphens, spaces and punctuation, which an independent re-parse demonstrated on two runs of the instrument, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, 2-Metil-AP-237, and Nicocodina, Nicodicodina, Nicomorfina, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, N-metilefedrina, Norcodeína. The neighbour pair is withdrawn. The absence itself is unchanged and rests on a complete reading of all 469 entries, which does not depend on the sort order. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Tramadol

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 449, Tramadol, chemical name trans-(±)-2-[(dimetilamino)metil]-1-(3-metoxifenil)ciclohexanol, Lista Nacional. The entry carries the Lista Nacional alone, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 traces to no United Nations schedule, so whether Penal Code article 376 reaches it was not established. [Certain] as to the listing, not established as to the offence.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 449, Tramadol, chemical name trans-(±)-2-[(dimetilamino)metil]-1-(3-metoxifenil)ciclohexanol, Lista Nacional. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and the entry read for this substance carries the Lista Nacional alone, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 traces to no United Nations schedule. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 449, Tramadol, chemical name trans-(±)-2-[(dimetilamino)metil]-1-(3-metoxifenil)ciclohexanol, Lista Nacional. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 449, Tramadol, chemical name trans-(±)-2-[(dimetilamino)metil]-1-(3-metoxifenil)ciclohexanol, Lista Nacional. [Certain] One reading note, flagged here because this cell set flags every other OCR repair and silently made this one: the printed chemical column of entry 449 reads trans-(+)-2-[(dimetilamino)metil] and this cell renders it trans-(±)-. Tramadol is used as the racemate and the repair is chemically right, but it is a departure from the printed text and the annex is capable of printing the plus or minus sign, which entry 448 TMA does. Stated rather than made silently. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 93, Alprazolam, Lista Verde, Lista IV. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 93, Alprazolam, Lista Verde, Lista IV. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 93, Alprazolam, Lista Verde, Lista IV. Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Alprazolam on its human list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 93, Alprazolam, Lista Verde, Lista IV. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Xylazine

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 464, Xilacina, chemical name 2-(2,6-Dimetilfenilamino)-5,6-dihidro-4H-tiazina, Lista Nacional. The entry carries the Lista Nacional alone, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 traces to no United Nations schedule, so whether Penal Code article 376 reaches it was not established. [Certain] as to the listing, not established as to the offence.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 464, Xilacina, chemical name 2-(2,6-Dimetilfenilamino)-5,6-dihidro-4H-tiazina, Lista Nacional. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and the entry read for this substance carries the Lista Nacional alone, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 traces to no United Nations schedule. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. The instrument spells it Xilacina with a c, and the recitals give the emergence of xilacina as one of the reasons for the update, so a search on the spelling xilazina returns nothing.
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 464, Xilacina, chemical name 2-(2,6-Dimetilfenilamino)-5,6-dihidro-4H-tiazina, Lista Nacional. Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Xilacina on its veterinary list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 464, Xilacina, chemical name 2-(2,6-Dimetilfenilamino)-5,6-dihidro-4H-tiazina, Lista Nacional. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 467, Zolpidem, chemical name N,N,6-trimetil-2-p-tolilimidazol[1,2-a]piridina-3-acetamida, Lista Verde, Lista IV. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 467, Zolpidem, chemical name N,N,6-trimetil-2-p-tolilimidazol[1,2-a]piridina-3-acetamida, Lista Verde, Lista IV. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 467, Zolpidem, chemical name N,N,6-trimetil-2-p-tolilimidazol[1,2-a]piridina-3-acetamida, Lista Verde, Lista IV. Anexo Técnico 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 names Zolpidem Tartrato, Hemitartrato on its human list, and article 1 of that resolution extends the control to every medicine with two or more active principles containing it and to every pharmaceutical form, concentration and presentation authorised by INVIMA or by ICA, without the list being updated. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation: Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 467, Zolpidem, chemical name N,N,6-trimetil-2-p-tolilimidazol[1,2-a]piridina-3-acetamida, Lista Verde, Lista IV. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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Not individually verified

1 substance is not individually verified for Colombia

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Substance	What we found
Barbiturates	Not confirmed. The member-by-member check was run and returned no member to check, because no phenobarbital...

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