Is Crack Cocaine legal in Grenada?

Legal status

Controlled. It is the base form of the substance listed at Part I of the First Schedule, the List of Narcotic Drugs Under Control as 'COCAINE (methyl ester of benzoylecgonine)'. Section 3(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by Order subject to affirmative resolution, so the printed schedule is not the last word and no Order later than SRO 16 of 2011 was read here.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Searched as 'crack', 'free base' and 'base', none of which appears in the act. The act names no preparation, form or route of administration, so the base form is reached as the same named substance, and Part I paragraph 5 separately catches any preparation or other product containing it. The Second Schedule figure of one gram for cocaine therefore governs this row too, and the act draws no distinction in penalty between the two forms. Section 6(4) deems a person found with a trafficable quantity to possess it for supply unless the contrary is proved, and section 18(1)(c) makes possession of a trafficable quantity trafficking, which is the limb carrying life. Part I reaches past its own names: paragraph 2 adds any stereoisomeric form other than dextromethorphan and dextrorphan, paragraph 3 any ester or ether, paragraph 4 any salt, paragraph 5 any preparation or other product containing one of those, and paragraph 6 any preparation designed for injection. The Fifth Schedule sets every punishment under section 37 and it does not graduate by substance at all. Possession under section 6(2), possession with intent to supply under section 6(3), production under section 5(2), supply or offering to supply under section 5(3), importation or exportation under section 4(3) and handling under section 7(1) each carry, on summary conviction, a fine of 250,000 dollars or imprisonment for 5 years or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of 500,000 dollars or imprisonment for 20 years or both. Trafficking under section 18(4) is the one figure that moves: on indictment it is imprisonment for life. Section 21 adds a separate offence of possession in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, also imprisonment for life on indictment. The act provides no death penalty. The Part of the First Schedule named in this cell is read from the act itself and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the schedule only as Parts I to IV.

If prescribed or medical

Section 12(3) requires the Minister to make regulations securing that it is not unlawful under section 5(1) for a practitioner acting as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, nor unlawful under section 6(1) for a practitioner or pharmacist to possess one for that purpose, and section 24(2)(g) empowers regulations on the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Section 12(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by order. Whether regulations under sections 12 and 24 are in force, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of crack cocaine in Grenada, was not established here.

Documentation

Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 24(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade, and sections 14 and 15 govern drugs brought into Grenada in transit rather than personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

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