Is Crack Cocaine legal in United Arab Emirates?

Legal status

Crack has no separate compound entry in Decision No. 158 of 2025. The dossier resolves the row through the cocaine entry, recording it as «كوكايين؛ كراك كوكايين», on the basis that crack is cocaine in base form rather than a distinct scheduled substance, so the Schedule 1 cocaine entry supplies the controlling regime. That is a chemistry point with a legal consequence: because there is no separate entry, there is also no separate and harsher treatment of the base form, and the analysis for this row is the cocaine analysis without modification. The row therefore runs through Articles 10, 41 and 57, with Schedule 10 carrying the quantity bands. The placement was read on 20 September 2026.

Consequences if caught

The capital route reaches this row through Schedule 1, which is one of the four schedule groups Article 57 names, because the form is cocaine and cocaine is in Schedule 1. The dossier records Article 57 as stating mandatory death for its trafficking or promotion trigger and as stating no quantity for it, so nothing turns on weight and nothing turns on the form being smokeable rather than powdered. It records separately that the Schedule 10 bands do not gate the Article 57 route. Any distinction drawn elsewhere in the world between powder and base sentencing has no counterpart here on this record, because the schedule has only one entry for both. Article 41 carries the personal use route for this branch, its tariff unstated.

If prescribed or medical

The dossier records at the modafinil row that a 268 entry ministry travellers list was checked and expressly not used as a schedule. Attached to this substance: crack has no entry of its own and is reached through the Schedule 1 cocaine entry, so there is no separate entry for a prescription to attach to even in principle. No prescribing route, exemption or permit is recorded, and the medical question is deferred rather than answered.

Documentation

There is no document recorded that would make carriage of cocaine in base form lawful, and nothing in the dossier treats it differently from cocaine for that purpose. Provenance: the entry relied on is «كوكايين؛ كراك كوكايين» at Schedule 1, read on 20 September 2026, with the capital analysis resting on Article 57 and not on the Schedule 10 bands. The single point worth carrying is that the absence of a crack entry is not a gap in the scheduling, it is the reason the cocaine entry governs.

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