Is Crack Cocaine legal in Tanzania?
- Legal status
- Controlled through the First Schedule entry «Cocaine» of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023, which makes the listed substance a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act; the dossier resolves the crack-cocaine row through that entry and quotes no separate entry for the crack form.
- Consequences if caught
- Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
- If prescribed or medical
- The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for crack cocaine.
- Documentation
- The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Cocaine» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for crack cocaine.
- Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023, First Schedule and sections 14 to 16
- elibrary.osg.go.tz
Court records
We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.
Other substances confirmed in Tanzania
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