Legal status in Côte d'Ivoire

Per-substance legal status for Côte d'Ivoire, 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.

49 confirmed substances39 not individually verifiedLast updated October 3, 2026

Confirmed legal status

2-FDCK

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: 2-FDCK is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention (« 2-fluorodeschlorokétamine 2-(2-fluorophényl)-2-(méthylamino)cyclohexan-1-one »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: 2-FDCK is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and 2-FDCK is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: The law read gives no personal medical exemption for 2-FDCK. The only lawful holding it describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints 2-FDCK in Schedule II as « 2-fluorodeschlorokétamine 2-(2-fluorophényl)-2-(méthylamino)cyclohexan-1-one » (code PF 013). The entry names this one compound. Ketamine is in none of the lists, and its own row is not confirmed. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, articles 1, 2, 3 to 19, 25, 38 and 41 to 47 · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · https://agp.africanlii.org/akn/ci/act/2022/407/fra@2024-01-17 (did not resolve on 3 October 2026) · INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text · incb.org · treaties.un.org · Updated October 3, 2026

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25I-NBOMe

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: 25I-NBOMe is in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention (« 25I-NBOMe 2-(4-iodo-2,5-diméthoxyphényl)-N-(2-méthoxybenzyl)éthanamine »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: 25I-NBOMe is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and 25I-NBOMe is in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: The law read gives no personal medical exemption for 25I-NBOMe. The only lawful holding it describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints 25I-NBOMe in Schedule I as « 25I-NBOMe 2-(4-iodo-2,5-diméthoxyphényl)-N-(2-méthoxybenzyl)éthanamine » (code PN 008). « 25B-NBOMe » and « 25C-NBOMe » are separate entries in the same schedule. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

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2C-B

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (four-table system; repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988), trafficking-type offences (cultivation, production, manufacture, import/export/transport, offer/sale/distribution of Table I high-risk drugs) carry 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor 5 to 10 years; personal use 1 to 3 months; penalties doubled in aggravated cases (violence/weapon, public official); the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: 2C-B is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs). In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs) · agp.africanlii.org · Updated June 28, 2026

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3-MMC

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: 3-MMC is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention (« 3-MMC 3-méthylméthcathinone »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: 3-MMC is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and 3-MMC is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: The law read gives no personal medical exemption for 3-MMC. The only lawful holding it describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints 3-MMC in Schedule II as « 3-MMC 3-méthylméthcathinone » (code PM 032). « méphédrone, 4-méthylméthcathinone » is a separate Schedule II entry. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

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Adderall

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Adderall's active ingredients, salts of amfetamine and of dexamfetamine, are in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention (« AMFÉTAMINE amphétamine (±)-α-méthylphénéthylamine »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Adderall is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and Adderall's active ingredients, salts of amfetamine and of dexamfetamine, are in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints Adderall in Schedule II as « AMFÉTAMINE amphétamine (±)-α-méthylphénéthylamine » (code PA 003 and PD 002). Dexamfetamine is listed in the same schedule as « DEXAMFÉTAMINE dexamphétamine (+)-α-méthylphénéthylamine » (PD 002). The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Alcohol

Legal status: Legal and regulated by Loi n° 64-293 du 1er août 1964 portant code des débits de boissons et des mesures contre l'alcoolisme, as amended: selling or offering drinks of groups 3 to 5 to anyone under 18 in a bar or public place, or any alcoholic drink for consumption on the spot to a child under 14, is banned (article 83) with a fine of 300,000 to 1,500,000 francs (article 84); manifest public drunkenness carries a fine and up to 10 days (article 67), rising for repeat offences to two months to one year (articles 68, 72 and 73); not a controlled drug, as at the INCB Green List 36th edition
Consequences if caught: Alcohol is legal in Côte d'Ivoire and regulated by Loi n° 64-293 du 1er août 1964 portant code des débits de boissons et des mesures contre l'alcoolisme, as amended by Loi 70-726, Loi 74-719 and Loi 99-437. Article 1 sorts drinks into five groups: group 2 is fermented undistilled drinks, « le vin, la bière, le cidre, le poiré, l'hydromel » and local drinks such as palm wine and millet beer, and groups 3 to 5 are fortified wines, liqueurs, rums and other spirits. Article 83 bans selling or offering drinks of groups 3, 4 and 5 to anyone under 18 in bars and other public places, and selling or offering any alcoholic drink for consumption on the spot to a child under 14; the fine is 300,000 to 1,500,000 francs, rising to 600,000 to 3,000,000 francs with two months to one year possible for a repeat within five years (article 84). Bars may not admit an unaccompanied person under 18 (article 86). Being found manifestly drunk in a street or other public place carries a fine of 800 to 8,000 francs and up to 10 days, or one of the two (article 67); a first repeat within twelve months carries 10 days to two months and a fine of 2,000 to 72,000 francs (article 68); a further offence within twelve months of a second conviction carries 1 to 6 months (article 72); and a repeat of that offence within five years carries two months to one year (article 73). A bar operator or employee who serves someone manifestly drunk faces a fine of 2,000 to 72,000 francs and 10 days to two months (article 69). Article 11 of the drug law, on driving under the influence of a drug, does not name alcohol. The maximum penalty under the provisions read is imprisonment. No Convention list adopted by Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, which repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988, names it (INCB Yellow List 65th edition July 2026, Green List 36th edition 2025, Red List 23rd edition July 2025), and no classification of it under article 2 or 46 of that law was found, so the drug law's terms, 5 to 10 years for trafficking and 1 to 3 months for holding for one's own use, do not reach this row.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescription matter.
Documentation: The drinks code was read on 3 October 2026 in the retyped consolidated copy at loidici.biz, which lists Loi 70-726 of 31 December 1970, Loi 74-719 of 27 November 1974 and Loi 99-437 of 6 July 1999 as the amending texts; it was not checked against a Journal officiel printing, and the civlii.laws.africa record for Loi 64-293 returned HTTP 404. Article 1 places « café, thé » among the non-alcoholic drinks of group 1. The fines quoted are as the loidici text prints them. Ethanol is not a scheduled substance in the Green List 36th edition 2025, the Yellow List 65th edition July 2026 or the Red List 23rd edition July 2025; the string occurs in them only inside other chemical names such as piperazineethanol and benzenemethanol, and inside the trade name Pethanol, a pethidine product. Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47).

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Amphetamine is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention (« AMFÉTAMINE amphétamine (±)-α-méthylphénéthylamine »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Amphetamine is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and amphetamine is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints amphetamine in Schedule II as « AMFÉTAMINE amphétamine (±)-α-méthylphénéthylamine » (code PA 003). « DEXAMFÉTAMINE » and « LÉVAMFÉTAMINE » are separate Schedule II entries. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Barbiturates

Legal status: Controlled for the twelve barbiturates named in the 1971 Convention, which Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 adopts by article 45: secobarbital in Schedule II, amobarbital, butalbital, cyclobarbital and pentobarbital in Schedule III, and allobarbital, barbital, butobarbital, methylphenobarbital, phenobarbital, secbutabarbital and vinylbital in Schedule IV; an unnamed barbiturate is reached, if at all, only through article 2's clause on substances dangerous to health or an article 46 arrêté; for the five Schedule II and III barbiturates, trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8) and holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10). That all twelve are controlled follows from article 1; what the text leaves open is only which offence articles attach to the seven Schedule IV barbiturates, because article 2 classes only Convention tables 1 to 3: holding for one's own use is very likely reached through article 1's definition (1 to 3 months, article 10), supply to another (1 to 3 years, article 7) and to a minor (5 to 10 years, article 13) reach any drug, the trafficking articles, where they apply, carry 5 to 10 years, and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Côte d'Ivoire controls the twelve barbiturates named in the 1971 Convention, through the Convention tables that Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs adopts by article 45. Phenobarbital is in Schedule IV and secobarbital, in Schedule II, is the most tightly scheduled. A barbiturate not named there is reached, if at all, only through article 2's clause on substances dangerous to health or an article 46 arrêté. A Schedule IV substance sits awkwardly in the text. Article 1 defines a substance psychotrope as one in any of the four 1971 schedules, but article 2 classes only the substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, and reserves its own tableau 4 for precursors. On article 1's definition a Schedule IV substance is a psychotropic substance, so the possession offence in article 10 very likely reaches it, though article 10's words « classées comme » echo article 2; whether the trafficking articles 3 to 5 and 8, which are framed by domestic tableau, reach it is not settled on the text, and if they do the range is 5 to 10 years. The supply offences in articles 6, 7 and 13 reach any « drogue », which article 1 defines as the stupéfiants and psychotropes together. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints « SÉCOBARBITAL acide allyl-5 (méthyl-1 butyl)-5 barbiturique » in Schedule II (PS 001); « AMOBARBITAL », « BUTALBITAL », « CYCLOBARBITAL » and « PENTOBARBITAL » in Schedule III (PA 002, PB 004, PC 001, PP 002); and « ALLOBARBITAL », « BARBITAL », « butobarbital », « MÉTHYLPHÉNOBARBITAL », « PHÉNOBARBITAL acide éthyl-5 phényl-5 barbiturique », « SECBUTABARBITAL » and « VINYLBITAL » in Schedule IV. No other barbiturate is named, and the Green List carries no class entry for barbituric acid derivatives. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (four-table system; repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988), trafficking-type offences (cultivation, production, manufacture, import/export/transport, offer/sale/distribution of Table I high-risk drugs) carry 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor 5 to 10 years; personal use 1 to 3 months; penalties doubled in aggravated cases (violence/weapon, public official); the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Benzodiazepines is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs). In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs) · agp.africanlii.org · Updated June 28, 2026

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Buprenorphine is in Schedule III of the 1971 Convention (« BUPRÉNORPHINE »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Buprenorphine is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and buprenorphine is in Schedule III of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints buprenorphine in Schedule III as « BUPRÉNORPHINE » (code PB 006). « PENTAZOCINE » is the other opioid in Schedule III of the 1971 Convention. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, trafficking-type offences (cultivation, production, import/export/transport, offer/sale/distribution) carry 5 to 10 years plus fines, doubled in aggravated cases; personal use 1 to 3 months; no legal recreational or medical regime; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), with no legal recreational regime. In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs) · agp.africanlii.org · Updated June 28, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Cathinone is in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention (« CATHINONE »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Cathinone is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and cathinone is in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: The law read gives no personal medical exemption for cathinone. The only lawful holding it describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints cathinone in Schedule I as « CATHINONE » (code PC 010). The English text of the same entry gives the chemical name (S)-2-aminopropiophenone, and the Green List extends Schedule I to stereoisomers unless excepted. « CATHINE (+)-norpseudoéphédrine » is in Schedule III. Khat leaf is not itself named in any of the lists, and its own row is not confirmed for that reason. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Controlled as a psychotropic substance under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45 and whose article 1 reaches all four 1971 schedules: Clonazepam is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention (« CLONAZÉPAM »). That it is controlled follows from article 1; what the text leaves open is only which offence articles attach, because article 2 classes only Convention tables 1 to 3: holding for one's own use is very likely reached through article 1's definition (1 to 3 months, article 10), supply to another (1 to 3 years, article 7) and to a minor (5 to 10 years, article 13) reach any drug, the trafficking articles, where they apply, carry 5 to 10 years, and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Clonazepam is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and clonazepam is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention. A Schedule IV substance sits awkwardly in the text. Article 1 defines a substance psychotrope as one in any of the four 1971 schedules, but article 2 classes only the substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, and reserves its own tableau 4 for precursors. On article 1's definition a Schedule IV substance is a psychotropic substance, so the possession offence in article 10 very likely reaches it, though article 10's words « classées comme » echo article 2; whether the trafficking articles 3 to 5 and 8, which are framed by domestic tableau, reach it is not settled on the text, and if they do the range is 5 to 10 years. The supply offences in articles 6, 7 and 13 reach any « drogue », which article 1 defines as the stupéfiants and psychotropes together. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints clonazepam in Schedule IV as « CLONAZÉPAM » (code PC 005). « clonazolam » is a separate Schedule IV entry. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (four-table system; repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988), trafficking-type offences (cultivation, production, manufacture, import/export/transport, offer/sale/distribution of Table I high-risk drugs) carry 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor 5 to 10 years; personal use 1 to 3 months; penalties doubled in aggravated cases (violence/weapon, public official); the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Cocaine is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs). In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Codeine

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Codeine is in Schedule II of the 1961 Single Convention (« CODÉINE 3-méthylmorphine (dérivé de la morphine, alcaloïde contenu dans l'opium et dans la paille de pavot) »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Codeine is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and codeine is in Schedule II of the 1961 Single Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Yellow List, 65th edition (July 2026), French text prints codeine in Schedule II as « CODÉINE 3-méthylmorphine (dérivé de la morphine, alcaloïde contenu dans l'opium et dans la paille de pavot) » (code NC 005). Schedule III of the 1961 Convention lists preparations of codeine compounded with other ingredients and containing not more than 100 milligrams per dosage unit and not more than 2.5 per cent in undivided preparations, under the heading « Préparations à base de stupéfiants exemptées de certaines dispositions ». Article 1 of the Ivorian law refers to all four 1961 tables, and the law read contains no exemption for those Schedule III preparations. Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, articles 1, 2, 3 to 19, 25, 38 and 41 to 47 · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · https://agp.africanlii.org/akn/ci/act/2022/407/fra@2024-01-17 (did not resolve on 3 October 2026) · INCB Yellow List, 65th edition (July 2026), French text · incb.org · treaties.un.org · Updated October 3, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Crack cocaine is cocaine in base form, and cocaine is in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention (« COCAÏNE ester méthylique de la benzoylecgonine (alcaloïde extrait de la feuille de coca ou préparé par synthèse à partir de l'ecgonine) »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Crack cocaine is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and crack cocaine is cocaine in base form, and cocaine is in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: The law read gives no personal medical exemption for crack cocaine. The only lawful holding it describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Yellow List, 65th edition (July 2026), French text prints crack cocaine in Schedule I as « COCAÏNE ester méthylique de la benzoylecgonine (alcaloïde extrait de la feuille de coca ou préparé par synthèse à partir de l'ecgonine) » (code NC 004). The coca leaf and ecgonine are separate Schedule I entries. Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, articles 1, 2, 3 to 19, 25, 38 and 41 to 47 · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · https://agp.africanlii.org/akn/ci/act/2022/407/fra@2024-01-17 (did not resolve on 3 October 2026) · INCB Yellow List, 65th edition (July 2026), French text · incb.org · treaties.un.org · Updated October 3, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Delta-8-THC is in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention (« delta-8-THC (6aR,10aR)-tétrahydro-6a,7,10,10a triméthyl-6,6,9 pentyl-3 »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Delta-8-THC is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and delta-8-THC is in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: The law read gives no personal medical exemption for delta-8-THC. The only lawful holding it describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints delta-8-THC in Schedule I as « delta-8-THC (6aR,10aR)-tétrahydro-6a,7,10,10a triméthyl-6,6,9 pentyl-3 » (code PT 002). It is one of the six isomers listed under the Schedule I entry « TÉTRAHYDROCANNABINOL », with their stereochemical variants; delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol is in Schedule II. The entry is chemical, so a product sold as hemp-derived delta-8 is caught whatever its source. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

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Diazepam

Legal status: Controlled as a psychotropic substance under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45 and whose article 1 reaches all four 1971 schedules: Diazepam is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention (« DIAZÉPAM »). That it is controlled follows from article 1; what the text leaves open is only which offence articles attach, because article 2 classes only Convention tables 1 to 3: holding for one's own use is very likely reached through article 1's definition (1 to 3 months, article 10), supply to another (1 to 3 years, article 7) and to a minor (5 to 10 years, article 13) reach any drug, the trafficking articles, where they apply, carry 5 to 10 years, and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Diazepam is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and diazepam is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention. A Schedule IV substance sits awkwardly in the text. Article 1 defines a substance psychotrope as one in any of the four 1971 schedules, but article 2 classes only the substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, and reserves its own tableau 4 for precursors. On article 1's definition a Schedule IV substance is a psychotropic substance, so the possession offence in article 10 very likely reaches it, though article 10's words « classées comme » echo article 2; whether the trafficking articles 3 to 5 and 8, which are framed by domestic tableau, reach it is not settled on the text, and if they do the range is 5 to 10 years. The supply offences in articles 6, 7 and 13 reach any « drogue », which article 1 defines as the stupéfiants and psychotropes together. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints diazepam in Schedule IV as « DIAZÉPAM » (code PD 006). « diclazépam, chlorodiazépam » is a separate Schedule IV entry. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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DMT

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (four-table system; repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988), trafficking-type offences (cultivation, production, manufacture, import/export/transport, offer/sale/distribution of Table I high-risk drugs) carry 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor 5 to 10 years; personal use 1 to 3 months; penalties doubled in aggravated cases (violence/weapon, public official); the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: DMT is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs). In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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DOM

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: DOM is in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention (« STP, DOM diméthoxy-2,5 diméthyl-4 α-phénéthylamine »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: DOM is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and DOM is in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: The law read gives no personal medical exemption for DOM. The only lawful holding it describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints DOM in Schedule I as « STP, DOM diméthoxy-2,5 diméthyl-4 α-phénéthylamine » (code PS 002). « BROLAMFÉTAMINE DOB », « DOC », « DOET » and « DMA » are separate Schedule I entries. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

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Etizolam

Legal status: Controlled as a psychotropic substance under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45 and whose article 1 reaches all four 1971 schedules: Etizolam is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention (« ÉTIZOLAM »). That it is controlled follows from article 1; what the text leaves open is only which offence articles attach, because article 2 classes only Convention tables 1 to 3: holding for one's own use is very likely reached through article 1's definition (1 to 3 months, article 10), supply to another (1 to 3 years, article 7) and to a minor (5 to 10 years, article 13) reach any drug, the trafficking articles, where they apply, carry 5 to 10 years, and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Etizolam is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and etizolam is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention. A Schedule IV substance sits awkwardly in the text. Article 1 defines a substance psychotrope as one in any of the four 1971 schedules, but article 2 classes only the substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, and reserves its own tableau 4 for precursors. On article 1's definition a Schedule IV substance is a psychotropic substance, so the possession offence in article 10 very likely reaches it, though article 10's words « classées comme » echo article 2; whether the trafficking articles 3 to 5 and 8, which are framed by domestic tableau, reach it is not settled on the text, and if they do the range is 5 to 10 years. The supply offences in articles 6, 7 and 13 reach any « drogue », which article 1 defines as the stupéfiants and psychotropes together. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints etizolam in Schedule IV as « ÉTIZOLAM » (code PE 009). It is named in the schedule in its own right rather than reached through a class. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (four-table system; repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988), trafficking-type offences (cultivation, production, manufacture, import/export/transport, offer/sale/distribution of Table I high-risk drugs) carry 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor 5 to 10 years; personal use 1 to 3 months; penalties doubled in aggravated cases (violence/weapon, public official); the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Fentanyl is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs). In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs) · agp.africanlii.org · Updated June 28, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (four-table system; repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988), trafficking-type offences (cultivation, production, manufacture, import/export/transport, offer/sale/distribution of Table I high-risk drugs) carry 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor 5 to 10 years; personal use 1 to 3 months; penalties doubled in aggravated cases (violence/weapon, public official); the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: GHB is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs). In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs) · agp.africanlii.org · Updated June 28, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (four-table system; repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988), trafficking-type offences (cultivation, production, manufacture, import/export/transport, offer/sale/distribution of Table I high-risk drugs) carry 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor 5 to 10 years; personal use 1 to 3 months; penalties doubled in aggravated cases (violence/weapon, public official); the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Heroin is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs). In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs) · agp.africanlii.org · Updated June 28, 2026

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HHC

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: HHC is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention (« HEXAHYDROCANNABINOL (HHC) »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: HHC is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and HHC is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: The law read gives no personal medical exemption for HHC. The only lawful holding it describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints HHC in Schedule II as « HEXAHYDROCANNABINOL (HHC) » (code PH 003). The 36th edition lists the inscription of « hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) au Tableau II » among its updates. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Hydrocodone is in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention (« HYDROCODONE dihydrocodéinone (dérivé de la morphine) »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Hydrocodone is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and hydrocodone is in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Yellow List, 65th edition (July 2026), French text prints hydrocodone in Schedule I as « HYDROCODONE dihydrocodéinone (dérivé de la morphine) » (code NH 002). Thebacon, which the Yellow List describes as the acetylated enol form of hydrocodone, is a separate Schedule I entry. Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, articles 1, 2, 3 to 19, 25, 38 and 41 to 47 · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · https://agp.africanlii.org/akn/ci/act/2022/407/fra@2024-01-17 (did not resolve on 3 October 2026) · INCB Yellow List, 65th edition (July 2026), French text · incb.org · treaties.un.org · Updated October 3, 2026

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Controlled as a psychotropic substance under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45 and whose article 1 reaches all four 1971 schedules: Lorazepam is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention (« LORAZÉPAM »). That it is controlled follows from article 1; what the text leaves open is only which offence articles attach, because article 2 classes only Convention tables 1 to 3: holding for one's own use is very likely reached through article 1's definition (1 to 3 months, article 10), supply to another (1 to 3 years, article 7) and to a minor (5 to 10 years, article 13) reach any drug, the trafficking articles, where they apply, carry 5 to 10 years, and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Lorazepam is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and lorazepam is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention. A Schedule IV substance sits awkwardly in the text. Article 1 defines a substance psychotrope as one in any of the four 1971 schedules, but article 2 classes only the substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, and reserves its own tableau 4 for precursors. On article 1's definition a Schedule IV substance is a psychotropic substance, so the possession offence in article 10 very likely reaches it, though article 10's words « classées comme » echo article 2; whether the trafficking articles 3 to 5 and 8, which are framed by domestic tableau, reach it is not settled on the text, and if they do the range is 5 to 10 years. The supply offences in articles 6, 7 and 13 reach any « drogue », which article 1 defines as the stupéfiants and psychotropes together. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints lorazepam in Schedule IV as « LORAZÉPAM » (code PL 004). « LORMÉTAZÉPAM » is a separate Schedule IV entry. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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LSD

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (four-table system; repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988), trafficking-type offences (cultivation, production, manufacture, import/export/transport, offer/sale/distribution of Table I high-risk drugs) carry 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor 5 to 10 years; personal use 1 to 3 months; penalties doubled in aggravated cases (violence/weapon, public official); the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: LSD is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs). In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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MDA

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: MDA is in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention (« TENAMFÉTAMINE MDA α-méthyl (méthylènedioxy)-3,4 phénéthylamine »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: MDA is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and MDA is in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: The law read gives no personal medical exemption for MDA. The only lawful holding it describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints MDA in Schedule I as « TENAMFÉTAMINE MDA α-méthyl (méthylènedioxy)-3,4 phénéthylamine » (code PM 014). « MDMA », « N-éthyl MDA, MDEA » and « N-hydroxy MDA » are separate Schedule I entries. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

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MDMA

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (four-table system; repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988), trafficking-type offences (cultivation, production, manufacture, import/export/transport, offer/sale/distribution of Table I high-risk drugs) carry 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor 5 to 10 years; personal use 1 to 3 months; penalties doubled in aggravated cases (violence/weapon, public official); the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: MDMA is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs). In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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MDPV

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: MDPV is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention (« MDPV, 3,4-méthylènedioxypyrovalérone »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: MDPV is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and MDPV is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: The law read gives no personal medical exemption for MDPV. The only lawful holding it describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints MDPV in Schedule II as « MDPV, 3,4-méthylènedioxypyrovalérone » (code PM 021). Alpha-PVP, alpha-PHP and alpha-PiHP are separate Schedule II entries. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Mephedrone is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention (« méphédrone, 4-méthylméthcathinone »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Mephedrone is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and mephedrone is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: The law read gives no personal medical exemption for mephedrone. The only lawful holding it describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints mephedrone in Schedule II as « méphédrone, 4-méthylméthcathinone » (code PM 022). « 3-MMC », « 3-chlorométhcathinone » and « 4-CMC » are separate Schedule II entries. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

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Mescaline

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (four-table system; repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988), trafficking-type offences (cultivation, production, manufacture, import/export/transport, offer/sale/distribution of Table I high-risk drugs) carry 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor 5 to 10 years; personal use 1 to 3 months; penalties doubled in aggravated cases (violence/weapon, public official); the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Mescaline is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs). In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs) · agp.africanlii.org · Updated June 28, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Methadone is in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention (« MÉTHADONE diméthylamino-6 diphényl-4,4 heptanone-3 »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Methadone is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and methadone is in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Yellow List, 65th edition (July 2026), French text prints methadone in Schedule I as « MÉTHADONE diméthylamino-6 diphényl-4,4 heptanone-3 » (code NM 002). « MÉTHADONE, INTERMÉDIAIRE », « ISOMÉTHADONE » and « NORMÉTHADONE » are separate Schedule I entries. Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, articles 1, 2, 3 to 19, 25, 38 and 41 to 47 · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · https://agp.africanlii.org/akn/ci/act/2022/407/fra@2024-01-17 (did not resolve on 3 October 2026) · INCB Yellow List, 65th edition (July 2026), French text · incb.org · treaties.un.org · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (four-table system; repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988), trafficking-type offences (cultivation, production, manufacture, import/export/transport, offer/sale/distribution of Table I high-risk drugs) carry 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor 5 to 10 years; personal use 1 to 3 months; penalties doubled in aggravated cases (violence/weapon, public official); the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Methamphetamine is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs). In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs) · agp.africanlii.org · Updated June 28, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Methaqualone is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention (« MÉTHAQUALONE méthyl-2 o-tolyl-3 3H-quinazolinone-4 »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Methaqualone is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and methaqualone is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: The law read gives no personal medical exemption for methaqualone. The only lawful holding it describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints methaqualone in Schedule II as « MÉTHAQUALONE méthyl-2 o-tolyl-3 3H-quinazolinone-4 » (code PM 006). Mecloqualone is a separate Schedule II entry. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

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Methylone

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Methylone is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention (« méthylone, bk-MDMA »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Methylone is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and methylone is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: The law read gives no personal medical exemption for methylone. The only lawful holding it describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints methylone in Schedule II as « méthylone, bk-MDMA » (code PM 023). Ethylone, eutylone, dipentylone and N-ethylnorpentylone are separate Schedule II entries. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Methylphenidate is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention (« MÉTHYLPHÉNIDATE α-phényl pipéridyl-2, acétate de méthyl »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Methylphenidate is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and methylphenidate is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints methylphenidate in Schedule II as « MÉTHYLPHÉNIDATE α-phényl pipéridyl-2, acétate de méthyl » (code PM 007). Ethylphenidate is a separate Schedule II entry. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Morphine

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Morphine is in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention (« MORPHINE alcaloïde principal de l'opium et du pavot à opium »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Morphine is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and morphine is in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Yellow List, 65th edition (July 2026), French text prints morphine in Schedule I as « MORPHINE alcaloïde principal de l'opium et du pavot à opium » (code NM 009). Schedule I of the 1961 Convention extends to the isomers, esters, ethers and salts of its entries unless excepted. Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, articles 1, 2, 3 to 19, 25, 38 and 41 to 47 · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · https://agp.africanlii.org/akn/ci/act/2022/407/fra@2024-01-17 (did not resolve on 3 October 2026) · INCB Yellow List, 65th edition (July 2026), French text · incb.org · treaties.un.org · Updated October 3, 2026

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MXE

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Methoxetamine (MXE) is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention (« méthoxétamine, MXE »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Methoxetamine (MXE) is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and methoxetamine (MXE) is in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: The law read gives no personal medical exemption for methoxetamine (MXE). The only lawful holding it describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints methoxetamine (MXE) in Schedule II as « méthoxétamine, MXE » (code PM 024). Ketamine is in none of the lists, so this entry says nothing about ketamine, whose own row is not confirmed. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Controlled as a psychotropic substance under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45 and whose article 1 reaches all four 1971 schedules: Nimetazepam is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention (« NIMÉTAZÉPAM »). That it is controlled follows from article 1; what the text leaves open is only which offence articles attach, because article 2 classes only Convention tables 1 to 3: holding for one's own use is very likely reached through article 1's definition (1 to 3 months, article 10), supply to another (1 to 3 years, article 7) and to a minor (5 to 10 years, article 13) reach any drug, the trafficking articles, where they apply, carry 5 to 10 years, and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Nimetazepam is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and nimetazepam is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention. A Schedule IV substance sits awkwardly in the text. Article 1 defines a substance psychotrope as one in any of the four 1971 schedules, but article 2 classes only the substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, and reserves its own tableau 4 for precursors. On article 1's definition a Schedule IV substance is a psychotropic substance, so the possession offence in article 10 very likely reaches it, though article 10's words « classées comme » echo article 2; whether the trafficking articles 3 to 5 and 8, which are framed by domestic tableau, reach it is not settled on the text, and if they do the range is 5 to 10 years. The supply offences in articles 6, 7 and 13 reach any « drogue », which article 1 defines as the stupéfiants and psychotropes together. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints nimetazepam in Schedule IV as « NIMÉTAZÉPAM » (code PN 001). « NITRAZÉPAM » is a separate Schedule IV entry. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Opium

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Opium is in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention (« OPIUM »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Opium is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and opium is in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: The law read gives no personal medical exemption for opium. The only lawful holding it describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Yellow List, 65th edition (July 2026), French text prints opium in Schedule I as « OPIUM » (code NO 001). The entry describes opium as « le latex épaissi du pavot à opium (plante de l'espèce Papaver somniferum L.) ». « MORPHINE alcaloïde principal de l'opium et du pavot à opium » and the concentrate of poppy straw are separate Schedule I entries; « CODÉINE » is in Schedule II. Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, articles 1, 2, 3 to 19, 25, 38 and 41 to 47 · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · https://agp.africanlii.org/akn/ci/act/2022/407/fra@2024-01-17 (did not resolve on 3 October 2026) · INCB Yellow List, 65th edition (July 2026), French text · incb.org · treaties.un.org · Updated October 3, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: Oxycodone is in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention (« OXYCODONE hydroxy-14 dihydrocodéinone (dérivé de la morphine) »); trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Oxycodone is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and oxycodone is in Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Yellow List, 65th edition (July 2026), French text prints oxycodone in Schedule I as « OXYCODONE hydroxy-14 dihydrocodéinone (dérivé de la morphine) » (code NO 002). Schedule I of the 1961 Convention extends to the isomers, esters, ethers and salts of its entries unless excepted. Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, articles 1, 2, 3 to 19, 25, 38 and 41 to 47 · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · https://agp.africanlii.org/akn/ci/act/2022/407/fra@2024-01-17 (did not resolve on 3 October 2026) · INCB Yellow List, 65th edition (July 2026), French text · incb.org · treaties.un.org · Updated October 3, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (four-table system; repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988), trafficking-type offences (cultivation, production, manufacture, import/export/transport, offer/sale/distribution of Table I high-risk drugs) carry 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor 5 to 10 years; personal use 1 to 3 months; penalties doubled in aggravated cases (violence/weapon, public official); the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: PCP is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs). In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (four-table system; repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988), trafficking-type offences (cultivation, production, manufacture, import/export/transport, offer/sale/distribution of Table I high-risk drugs) carry 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor 5 to 10 years; personal use 1 to 3 months; penalties doubled in aggravated cases (violence/weapon, public official); the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Psilocybin is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs). In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs) · agp.africanlii.org · Updated June 28, 2026

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Controlled where the compound is named: twenty one synthetic cannabinoids are in Schedule II and two synthetic THC analogues, DMHP and parahexyl, in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention, which Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 adopts by article 45; an unnamed compound is reached, if at all, only through article 2's clause on « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé » or an article 46 arrêté; trafficking-type conduct carries 5 to 10 years (articles 3, 4, 5 and 8), holding for one's own use 1 to 3 months (article 10), supplying a minor 5 to 10 years (article 13), and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Côte d'Ivoire controls synthetic cannabinoids by name, through the Convention tables that Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs adopts by article 45. Schedule II of the 1971 Convention names twenty one of them, among them « JWH-018 », « AM-2201 », « UR-144 », « XLR-11 », « 5F-ADB » and « MDMB-4en-PINACA », and Schedule I names « DMHP » and « parahexyl »; the full list is in the documentation for this row. Each is a psychotropic substance under the law, and so is any product that contains one. A product whose active compound is on none of those lists is not reached by the Convention entries; it may still fall under article 2's clause on substances dangerous to health or under an article 46 arrêté, and no arrêté naming one was found. Because a smoking blend rarely says what it contains, assume it is caught. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: No synthetic cannabinoid on the list is a traveller medicine. The only lawful holding the law describes outside a prescription is by persons the competent authority authorises for medical, scientific, teaching or forensic research (article 38).
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints these Schedule II entries, each by name and code: « AM-2201, JWH-2201 » (PA 008), « 5F-APINACA, 5F-AKB-48 » (PA 009), « 5F-AMB, 5F-AMB-PINACA » (PA 010), « ADB-BUTINACA » (PA 011), « AB-CHMINACA » (PC 011), « CUMYL-4CN-BINACA » (PC 012), « ADB-CHMINACA, MAB-CHMINACA » (PC 013), « CUMYL-PEGACLONE » (PC 015), « FUB-AMB, MMB-FUBINACA, AMB-FUBINACA » (PF 008), « ADB-FUBINACA » (PF 009), « AB-FUBINACA » (PF 010), « JWH-018, AM-678 » (PJ 001), « MDMB-CHMICA » (PM 025), « 5F-MDMB-PICA » (PM 028), « 4F-MDMB-BINACA » (PM 029), « MDMB-4en-PINACA » (PM 030), « 5F-ADB, 5F-MDMB-PINACA » (PP 011), « AB-PINACA » (PP 018), « 5F-PB-22 » (PP 026), « UR-144 » (PU 001) and « XLR-11 » (PX 001). In Schedule I it prints « DMHP » (PD 003) and « parahexyl » (PP 001), each defined as a substituted tétrahydro-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pyranne-ol. MDMB-FUBINACA was added to Schedule II by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in March 2026, and the INCB note on new substances says that addition takes effect on 25 November 2026, so it is not counted here. HHC and the THC isomers are on their own rows. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire.

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Tobacco

Legal status: Legal for adults and regulated by Loi n° 2019-676 du 23 juillet 2019 relative à la lutte antitabac en Côte d'Ivoire: selling or offering tobacco to anyone under 18 is banned (article 8), and selling it to a minor is punished by 1 to 5 years and a fine of 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 francs CFA, or one of the two (article 28); single cigarette sales are banned (article 9); smoking is banned in enclosed and open public places, workplaces and public transport; not a controlled drug, as at the INCB Yellow List 65th edition
Consequences if caught: Tobacco is legal for adults in Côte d'Ivoire and regulated by Loi n° 2019-676 du 23 juillet 2019 relative à la lutte antitabac. The law bans selling or offering tobacco or tobacco products to anyone under 18, and having minors sell them (article 8); selling within 200 metres of schools, health facilities, sports and cultural venues and administrations (article 7); single unit sales, with a minimum pack of 20 cigarettes, and sales outside licensed points of sale (article 9); and sale online or by vending machine (article 10). Duty free sale does not apply to tobacco (article 12 or the unnumbered article after it). Under Titre IV it is forbidden to expose others to tobacco smoke and to smoke in enclosed or open public places, places of collective use, workplaces and public transport, and tobacco use by any pregnant woman is forbidden. Penalties fall on sellers and the trade: selling or having tobacco sold to a minor carries 1 to 5 years and a fine of 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 francs CFA, or one of the two (article 28); breaking the single unit ban carries a fine of 1,000,000 to 5,000,000 francs CFA (article 23); advertising carries 1 to 3 years (article 25). The penal articles legible in the scan, 22 to 28, set no penalty on an individual for smoking in a public place; article 21 lets an establishment be closed or lose its licence for any breach. The maximum penalty under this law is imprisonment. No Convention list adopted by Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, which repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988, names it (INCB Yellow List 65th edition July 2026, Green List 36th edition 2025, Red List 23rd edition July 2025), and no classification of it under article 2 or 46 of that law was found, so the drug law's terms, 5 to 10 years for trafficking and 1 to 3 months for holding for one's own use, do not reach this row.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescription matter: tobacco is sold, under the restrictions above, at licensed points of sale.
Documentation: Loi n° 2019-676 du 23 juillet 2019 relative à la lutte antitabac en Côte d'Ivoire was read on 3 October 2026 from the scan of the signed text held by the Tobacco Control Laws database, eight pages; articles 1, 2, 4 to 12, 14 to 18 and 21 to 34 are legible in it, and the numbers of articles 3 and 13 and of the Titre IV articles did not print. Article 1 defines tobacco as « plante herbacée de la famille des solanacées dont les feuilles sont travaillées et présentées sous diverses formes pour la consommation ». Article 4 bans industrial cultivation of tobacco, and article 22 punishes breaches of the cultivation and manufacturing rules with 1 to 5 years or a fine of 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 francs CFA. Neither tobacco nor nicotine is in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition (July 2026), the Green List 36th edition (2025) or the Red List 23rd edition (July 2025), read on 3 October 2026. Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47).

Loi n° 2019-676 du 23 juillet 2019 relative à la lutte antitabac en Côte d'Ivoire, articles 1, 4, 7 to 12, 21 to 28 and Titre IV · tobaccocontrollaws.org · Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs · loidici.biz · INCB Yellow List, 65th edition (July 2026), French text · incb.org · INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text · incb.org · Updated October 3, 2026

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Controlled as a psychotropic substance under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45 and whose article 1 reaches all four 1971 schedules: Alprazolam is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention (« ALPRAZOLAM »). That it is controlled follows from article 1; what the text leaves open is only which offence articles attach, because article 2 classes only Convention tables 1 to 3: holding for one's own use is very likely reached through article 1's definition (1 to 3 months, article 10), supply to another (1 to 3 years, article 7) and to a minor (5 to 10 years, article 13) reach any drug, the trafficking articles, where they apply, carry 5 to 10 years, and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Alprazolam is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and alprazolam is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention. A Schedule IV substance sits awkwardly in the text. Article 1 defines a substance psychotrope as one in any of the four 1971 schedules, but article 2 classes only the substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, and reserves its own tableau 4 for precursors. On article 1's definition a Schedule IV substance is a psychotropic substance, so the possession offence in article 10 very likely reaches it, though article 10's words « classées comme » echo article 2; whether the trafficking articles 3 to 5 and 8, which are framed by domestic tableau, reach it is not settled on the text, and if they do the range is 5 to 10 years. The supply offences in articles 6, 7 and 13 reach any « drogue », which article 1 defines as the stupéfiants and psychotropes together. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints alprazolam in Schedule IV as « ALPRAZOLAM » (code PA 004). « flualprazolam », « bromazolam » and « clonazolam » are separate Schedule IV entries. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Controlled as a psychotropic substance under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45 and whose article 1 reaches all four 1971 schedules: Zolpidem is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention (« ZOLPIDEM »). That it is controlled follows from article 1; what the text leaves open is only which offence articles attach, because article 2 classes only Convention tables 1 to 3: holding for one's own use is very likely reached through article 1's definition (1 to 3 months, article 10), supply to another (1 to 3 years, article 7) and to a minor (5 to 10 years, article 13) reach any drug, the trafficking articles, where they apply, carry 5 to 10 years, and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Zolpidem is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and zolpidem is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention. A Schedule IV substance sits awkwardly in the text. Article 1 defines a substance psychotrope as one in any of the four 1971 schedules, but article 2 classes only the substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, and reserves its own tableau 4 for precursors. On article 1's definition a Schedule IV substance is a psychotropic substance, so the possession offence in article 10 very likely reaches it, though article 10's words « classées comme » echo article 2; whether the trafficking articles 3 to 5 and 8, which are framed by domestic tableau, reach it is not settled on the text, and if they do the range is 5 to 10 years. The supply offences in articles 6, 7 and 13 reach any « drogue », which article 1 defines as the stupéfiants and psychotropes together. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
Documentation: Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints zolpidem in Schedule IV as « ZOLPIDEM » (code PZ 002). Zopiclone and zaleplon appear nowhere in the Green List. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Not individually verified

39 substances are not individually verified for Côte d'Ivoire

For these the governing national drug law is cited, but we have not verified that the substance specifically is scheduled under it. Treat them as unanswered, not as legal. Confirm with Côte d'Ivoire’s drug authority or your embassy.

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
2C-E	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
2C-I	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
2C-T-7	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
4-AcO-DMT	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
6-APB	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Amyl Nitrite	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Ayahuasca	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Caffeine	Not confirmed. Caffeine is in none of the UN Convention lists that Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 adopts by article...
Cannabinol	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
CBD	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
DXM	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Ephedrine	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Gabapentin	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
GBL	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Ketamine	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Khat	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Kratom	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
LSA (Morning Glory)	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Memantine	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Mitragynine	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Modafinil	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Nicotine	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Nitrous Oxide	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Peyote	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Phenibut	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Pink Cocaine / Tusi	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Poppers	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Pregabalin	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Quetiapine	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Salvia divinorum	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
THC-P	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Tramadol	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...
Xylazine	Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des...

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary by country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with the destination’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.

Before you travel

Verify current rules with the destination country’s official drug authority and your own country’s embassy before traveling. Find the destination’s U.S. embassy & official country guidance →
Non-U.S. travelers: check your own government’s travel advisory and embassy.

If you’re detained or arrested abroad

Contact your own country’s embassy or consulate in the destination immediately, not the destination’s authorities. U.S. citizens: contact the nearest U.S. embassy/consulate and the U.S. State Department at +1-202-501-4444 (from abroad). If a U.S. citizen is arrested or detained abroad →

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