Legal status in Cuba

Per-substance legal status for Cuba, 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.

13 confirmed substances75 not individually verifiedLast updated October 3, 2026

Confirmed legal status

Alcohol

Legal status: Not controlled in Cuba as an illicit drug. Alcohol is not a «droga ilícita» for the purposes of articles 235 to 238. The Code uses drunkenness as a matter going to responsibility, in the phrase «drogas o sustancias de efectos similares» used in the general part about a person who placed themselves in that state, rather than as a trafficking offence. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Articles 235 to 238 do not apply to it, so no drug penalty attaches. No capital or life exposure arises from this substance as such, because articles 235 to 238 reach only «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares» and this is not one. Article 235.2, which carries «privación perpetua de libertad o muerte», is engaged by the drug offences alone. The name was searched in Ley 151/2022 articles 235 to 238 and returned «sin entrada como droga ilícita».
If prescribed / medical: Article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», so a substance held under a doctor's prescription is outside the possession offence. Article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, because article 236 turns on whether the holder has «la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa». No Cuban traveller allowance was read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.

Cuba, Ley 151 de 2022, Código Penal, published in Gaceta Oficial No. 93 Ordinaria de 1ro. de septiembre de 2022 and in force from 1 December 2022, articles 235 to 238 and articles 33 and 34 · read from the Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba PDF, 141 pages, 907,882 bytes, located by walking the gazette's own search rather than by constructing an identifier · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · Provenance of this revision: consequences_street was re-authored in this pass from research/dossiers/Cuba_2cb_88_REBUILT_2026-09-20.docx. The other four fields are carried unchanged from the entry published before this batch, including the Gaceta Oficial reading described above, which was NOT re-performed in this pass. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Caffeine

Legal status: Not controlled in Cuba as an illicit drug. Caffeine is not a «droga ilícita» for the purposes of articles 235 to 238. It is a food and medicine ingredient and the Code reaches it nowhere. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Articles 235 to 238 do not apply to it, so no drug penalty attaches. No capital or life exposure arises from this substance as such, because articles 235 to 238 reach only «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares» and this is not one. Article 235.2, which carries «privación perpetua de libertad o muerte», is engaged by the drug offences alone. The name was searched in Ley 151/2022 articles 235 to 238 and returned «sin entrada como droga ilícita».
If prescribed / medical: Article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», so a substance held under a doctor's prescription is outside the possession offence. Article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, because article 236 turns on whether the holder has «la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa». No Cuban traveller allowance was read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.

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Cannabinol

Legal status: Controlled in Cuba as a cannabis derivative. Article 236(b) covers «Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, o sus derivados». Cannabinol is a cannabis constituent, so it falls inside «o sus derivados» in article 236(b) rather than needing a listing of its own. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. Trafficking, production, transport, possession with intent to traffic and cultivation are article 235.1, punished by four to ten years. Simple possession without authorisation or a medical prescription is article 236, which sets three tiers, and the residual limb article 236(c) reaches «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares no comprendidas en los apartados anteriores» and is punished by six months to one year or a fine. Article 237 covers a professional prescribing outside therapeutic purposes and article 238 covers breach of the control measures. Article 235.5 adds confiscation of assets. Article 235.2 provides: «La sanción es de privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte» where any of eight aggravating circumstances applies, among them «si los hechos se realizan con cantidades relativamente grandes de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», international trafficking, use of a person under eighteen, commission near a school, and a link to organised crime. The quantity that triggers it is not stated as a number anywhere in the Code: the phrase is «cantidades relativamente grandes» and no gramme figure appears. It is not mandatory: article 33.1 provides that «La sanción de muerte se ejecuta por fusilamiento y solo se aplica, excepcionalmente por el tribunal, en las formas más graves de consumación de los delitos para los que está establecida», and article 33.2 excludes persons under twenty and women who were pregnant at the time of the act or at sentencing. Those are Cuba's published drug penalties and they are NOT this row's exposure. Whether this substance is a «droga ilícita o sustancia de efectos similares» is exactly the question the source did not settle, and the Code names no substance but cocaína and Cannabis. So no article above is asserted against this row, and none is ruled out. [Likely] That the Code names no substance but cocaína and Cannabis is carried forward from the entry published before this batch and was not re-derived from the Gaceta in this pass; the dossier's own reading agrees with it, placing Cannabis at arts 235.1(d) and 236(b) and cocaína at art 236(a).
If prescribed / medical: Article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», so a substance held under a doctor's prescription is outside the possession offence. Article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, because article 236 turns on whether the holder has «la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa». No Cuban traveller allowance was read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Controlled in Cuba, and it is the second and last substance the Código Penal names. Article 236(b) gives it its own lighter tier: «con privación de libertad de seis meses a dos años o multa de doscientas a quinientas cuotas o ambas, cuando se trate de Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, o sus derivados». Cultivation is separately an article 235.1(d) offence: «cultive la planta Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, u otras de propiedades similares o, a sabiendas, posea semillas o partes de dichas plantas», and article 235.5 adds confiscation of the land. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: Ley 151/2022 article 235.2, «privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte», reaches this row. This substance is named expressly in the Code at art 235.1(d) and art 236(b), «cultive la planta Cannabis, conocida por marihuana» and «Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, o sus derivados», so it is a «droga ilícita» without needing the «efectos similares» route, and art 236(b) sets the simple-possession maximum at 2 years. Trafficking, production, transport, possession with intent to traffic and cultivation are article 235.1, punished by four to ten years. Simple possession without authorisation or a medical prescription is article 236, which sets three tiers, and the residual limb article 236(c) reaches «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares no comprendidas en los apartados anteriores» and is punished by six months to one year or a fine. Article 237 covers a professional prescribing outside therapeutic purposes and article 238 covers breach of the control measures. Article 235.5 adds confiscation of assets. Article 235.2 provides: «La sanción es de privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte» where any of eight aggravating circumstances applies, among them «si los hechos se realizan con cantidades relativamente grandes de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», international trafficking, use of a person under eighteen, commission near a school, and a link to organised crime. The quantity that triggers it is not stated as a number anywhere in the Code: the phrase is «cantidades relativamente grandes» and no gramme figure appears. It is not mandatory: article 33.1 provides that «La sanción de muerte se ejecuta por fusilamiento y solo se aplica, excepcionalmente por el tribunal, en las formas más graves de consumación de los delitos para los que está establecida», and article 33.2 excludes persons under twenty and women who were pregnant at the time of the act or at sentencing.
If prescribed / medical: Article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», so a substance held under a doctor's prescription is outside the possession offence. Article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, because article 236 turns on whether the holder has «la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa». No Cuban traveller allowance was read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.

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CBD

Legal status: Prohibited in Cuba when it is cannabis plant material, and [Likely] prohibited at the border and in the post when it is an extract. Resolución 23/2020 of the Ministerio de Salud Pública, resuelvo primero, declares «para los viajeros, la paquetería y el tránsito de mercancías nacionales e internacionales, la prohibición de importar, tener, transportar y exportar con fines terapéuticos o recreativos la planta Cannabis (marihuana)», and the plant itself carries no qualifier, «aun cuando se porten certificados médicos que justifiquen su consumo». The same resuelvo reaches «flores, semillas, productos o sustancias, componentes derivados de estos que produzcan efectos similares a las drogas», and whether a non intoxicating cannabidiol extract is a derivative «que produzcan efectos similares a las drogas» the text does not say. Two further routes make the extract [Likely] inadmissible. First, the INCB Lista Amarilla, 64th edition, July 2025, places «RESINA DE CANNABIS y EXTRACTOS y TINTURAS DE CANNABIS» in Lista I of the 1961 Convention; a whole plant or full spectrum cannabidiol oil extracted from the plant is such an extract on its face, while an isolate or a synthetic cannabidiol is named nowhere in the List and whether it counts as an extract is not established. Resolución 104/2022 resuelvo decimoquinto prohibits «la modalidad de envíos para los estupefacientes de la Lista I», and no cannabis product is among the 1961 Lista I products its Anexo I lets a traveller bring. Second, the same resolution's recital describes the 2020 measure as «la prohibición de entrada al territorio nacional de los preparados farmacéuticos que contienen marihuana o sus derivados», which reaches a cannabidiol medicine entering Cuba; that is a recital, and it does not repeal Resolución 23/2020. Resuelvo segundo of Resolución 23/2020 separately bars goods «que incite, estimule o propague el uso de la planta Cannabis (marihuana)», «aunque estos no contengan en sí los principios activos de la droga o sustancia que represente o haga alusión, pero que la incitación, el estímulo o la propaganda en su conjunto se consideren nocivos para la salud humana». Inside Cuba, article 235.1(d) of the Código Penal punishes whoever, «sin estar autorizado», «a sabiendas, posea semillas o partes de dichas plantas», with no test of effect, so hemp flower sold for its cannabidiol is caught whatever its THC content. For an extract, the live Cuba rows for cannabinol, delta 8 THC, HHC and THC P read «o sus derivados» in article 236(b) as reaching any cannabis constituent, and on that reading cannabidiol is caught too; but article 236 opens «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», and whether a non intoxicating constituent is one no text read settles. The Code sets no THC threshold and distinguishes no cannabinoid from another, and cannabidiol is not one of the 26 entries of Resolución 25/2022. The Código Penal names only two drugs: across all 470,392 characters of the gazette text (pdftotext layout extraction, measured on 3 October 2026) cocaína appears once, at article 236(a), and Cannabis twice, at articles 235.1(d) and 236(b), and the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times. The lists sit with the Ministerio de Salud Pública: Resolución 25/2022 resuelvo segundo approves a «LISTA DE SUSTANCIAS CONSIDERADAS DE EFECTO SIMILAR A LAS DROGAS, ESTUPEFACIENTES Y PSICOTRÓPICAS SOMETIDAS A CONTROL NACIONAL» of 26 entries, and Resolución 104/2022 governs the medicines of the 1961 and 1971 Convention Lists a traveller may bring, List by List.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: Ley 151/2022 article 235.2, «privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte», reaches this row. It reaches it through cannabis plant material: article 235.1(d) punishes whoever «cultive la planta Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, u otras de propiedades similares o, a sabiendas, posea semillas o partes de dichas plantas», at four to ten years and with no test of effect. Five limbs of article 235.2 reach such a case without asking whether the thing held is a drug: limb (a) where «los hechos a los que se refieren los apartados anteriores» are committed by a public official, limb (d) where «en la comisión de los hechos previstos en el apartado anterior» a person under eighteen is used, limb (e) where «los hechos descriptos en el apartado 1» take place near a school, limb (f) a link to organised crime, and limb (h) a prior record for a similar offence. For a cannabidiol extract the exposure is not established: the 1961 Lista I placement of cannabis extracts points toward an extract being one of the «drogas ilícitas», but the Code never cross refers to the Conventions, so whether article 235.1(a) on introducing a drug into the national territory or article 236(b) on possession reaches it no text read settles. Resolución 23/2020 sets no penalty of its own: resuelvo tercero provides that on detection the competent authorities «actúan según sus facultades y en cumplimiento de la legislación vigente». Trafficking, production, transport, introducing into or taking out of the national territory, possession with intent to traffic, cultivation of cannabis, and knowingly possessing its seeds or parts are article 235.1, punished by four to ten years. Simple possession «sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa» is article 236, which sets three tiers, each a prison term or a fine «o ambas»: article 236(a) one to three years «cuando se trate de cocaína o de otras sustancias de efectos similares o superiores», article 236(b) six months to two years «cuando se trate de Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, o sus derivados», and the residual limb article 236(c) six months to one year «cuando se trate de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares no comprendidas en los apartados anteriores». Article 237.1 covers a professional prescribing outside therapeutic purposes and an official who permits a drug's introduction into or extraction from the country, and article 238 covers breach of the control measures. Article 235.5 adds confiscation of assets «si procede». Article 235.2 provides: «La sanción es de privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte» where any of eight aggravating circumstances applies, among them «si los hechos se realizan con cantidades relativamente grandes de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», international trafficking, commission by a public official, use of a person under eighteen, commission near a school, a link to organised crime, and a prior record for a similar offence. The quantity that triggers the large quantities limb is not stated as a number anywhere in the Code: the phrase is «cantidades relativamente grandes» and no gramme figure appears in the Code. Death is not mandatory: article 33.1 provides that «La sanción de muerte se ejecuta por fusilamiento y solo se aplica, excepcionalmente por el tribunal, en las formas más graves de consumación de los delitos para los que está establecida», and article 33.2 excludes persons under twenty and women who were pregnant at the time of the act or at sentencing.
If prescribed / medical: A prescription does not open the border for cannabis plant material. Resolución 23/2020 resuelvo primero applies «aun cuando se porten certificados médicos que justifiquen su consumo», and it bars import, possession, transport and export «con fines terapéuticos o recreativos». A cannabidiol medicine falls under the recital in Resolución 104/2022 on «los preparados farmacéuticos que contienen marihuana o sus derivados» [Likely], and no cannabis preparation is among the products its annexes admit. Inside Cuba, article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», and article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
Documentation: No document read makes a cannabis or cannabidiol product admissible. Resolución 23/2020 covers travellers, parcels and goods in transit alike and applies to the plant «aun cuando se porten certificados médicos», and Resolución 104/2022 authorises travellers to bring only the controlled preparations its annexes and resuelvos name, none of which is a cannabis product. Advice, not a rule: leave cannabidiol products, and cannabis branded goods, out of luggage and parcels to Cuba.

Ministerio de Salud Pública, Resolución 23/2020, dated 5 February 2020, Gaceta Oficial No. 36 Extraordinaria de 9 de julio de 2020, GOC-2020-484-EX36, pages 332 to 334, resuelvos primero to sexto, in force on publication under resuelvo sexto, 366,812 bytes, sha256 beginning 4092fa57c11ea4e9 · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · Ministerio de Salud Pública, Resolución 104/2022, Gaceta Oficial No. 28 Extraordinaria de 12 de abril de 2022, GOC-2022-337-EX28, recitals, resuelvos primero to vigesimoprimero and Anexos I and II, 982,320 bytes, sha256 beginning 8fcdc4e6cec73bcf · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · International Narcotics Control Board, Lista Amarilla, 64th edition, July 2025, the 1961 Convention Lists in force, 1,540,645 bytes, sha256 beginning fdeb6a55569fc4d9 · incb.org · Cuba, Ley 151 de 2022, Código Penal, Gaceta Oficial No. 93 Ordinaria de 1ro. de septiembre de 2022, in force «a partir de los noventa días de su publicación» under its disposición final segunda (the date 1 December 2022 carried by the earlier entry is not re-derived here), articles 33, 34 and 235 to 238, read from the gazette PDF fetched on 3 October 2026, 907,882 bytes, sha256 beginning eff887708aa188d9, byte identical to the copy the Fiscalía General de la República publishes · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · fgr.gob.cu · Ministerio de Salud Pública, Resolución 25/2022, Gaceta Oficial No. 22 Extraordinaria de 24 de marzo de 2022, GOC-2022-295-EX22, resuelvos primero to décimo, read from the gazette pages as published by CECMED, the Cuban medicines regulator, 246,808 bytes, sha256 beginning 7f9bb2f922eb0fcc · cecmed.cu · all read on 3 October 2026 · no dossier was used · Updated October 3, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled in Cuba, and it is one of only two substances the Código Penal names. Article 236(a) sets the heaviest possession tier by naming it: «Con privación de libertad de uno a tres años o multa de trescientas a mil cuotas o ambas, cuando se trate de cocaína o de otras sustancias de efectos similares o superiores». So cocaine is both a listed substance in the only sense Cuba has, and the benchmark against which every other substance is measured. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: Ley 151/2022 article 235.2, «privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte», reaches this row. This substance is named expressly in the Code at art 236(a), «cuando se trate de cocaína o de otras sustancias de efectos similares o superiores», so it is a «droga ilícita» without needing the «efectos similares» route, and art 236(a) sets the simple-possession maximum at 3 years. Trafficking, production, transport, possession with intent to traffic and cultivation are article 235.1, punished by four to ten years. Simple possession without authorisation or a medical prescription is article 236, which sets three tiers, and the residual limb article 236(c) reaches «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares no comprendidas en los apartados anteriores» and is punished by six months to one year or a fine. Article 237 covers a professional prescribing outside therapeutic purposes and article 238 covers breach of the control measures. Article 235.5 adds confiscation of assets. Article 235.2 provides: «La sanción es de privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte» where any of eight aggravating circumstances applies, among them «si los hechos se realizan con cantidades relativamente grandes de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», international trafficking, use of a person under eighteen, commission near a school, and a link to organised crime. The quantity that triggers it is not stated as a number anywhere in the Code: the phrase is «cantidades relativamente grandes» and no gramme figure appears. It is not mandatory: article 33.1 provides that «La sanción de muerte se ejecuta por fusilamiento y solo se aplica, excepcionalmente por el tribunal, en las formas más graves de consumación de los delitos para los que está establecida», and article 33.2 excludes persons under twenty and women who were pregnant at the time of the act or at sentencing.
If prescribed / medical: Article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», so a substance held under a doctor's prescription is outside the possession offence. Article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, because article 236 turns on whether the holder has «la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa». No Cuban traveller allowance was read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled in Cuba through cocaine. Crack is cocaine in its free base form, and article 236(a) names «cocaína» without distinguishing salt from base, then extends the same tier to «otras sustancias de efectos similares o superiores», which the base plainly is. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: Ley 151/2022 article 235.2, «privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte», reaches this row. This substance is named expressly in the Code at art 236(a), «cuando se trate de cocaína o de otras sustancias de efectos similares o superiores», so it is a «droga ilícita» without needing the «efectos similares» route, and art 236(a) sets the simple-possession maximum at 3 years, and the dosage form is resolved only after analytical identification as cocaine. Trafficking, production, transport, possession with intent to traffic and cultivation are article 235.1, punished by four to ten years. Simple possession without authorisation or a medical prescription is article 236, which sets three tiers, and the residual limb article 236(c) reaches «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares no comprendidas en los apartados anteriores» and is punished by six months to one year or a fine. Article 237 covers a professional prescribing outside therapeutic purposes and article 238 covers breach of the control measures. Article 235.5 adds confiscation of assets. Article 235.2 provides: «La sanción es de privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte» where any of eight aggravating circumstances applies, among them «si los hechos se realizan con cantidades relativamente grandes de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», international trafficking, use of a person under eighteen, commission near a school, and a link to organised crime. The quantity that triggers it is not stated as a number anywhere in the Code: the phrase is «cantidades relativamente grandes» and no gramme figure appears. It is not mandatory: article 33.1 provides that «La sanción de muerte se ejecuta por fusilamiento y solo se aplica, excepcionalmente por el tribunal, en las formas más graves de consumación de los delitos para los que está establecida», and article 33.2 excludes persons under twenty and women who were pregnant at the time of the act or at sentencing.
If prescribed / medical: Article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», so a substance held under a doctor's prescription is outside the possession offence. Article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, because article 236 turns on whether the holder has «la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa». No Cuban traveller allowance was read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Controlled in Cuba as a cannabis derivative. Article 236(b) covers «Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, o sus derivados». Delta-8-THC is a tetrahydrocannabinol isomer and therefore a cannabis derivative within «o sus derivados» in article 236(b). The Code draws no distinction between isomers because it draws no chemical distinctions at all. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. Trafficking, production, transport, possession with intent to traffic and cultivation are article 235.1, punished by four to ten years. Simple possession without authorisation or a medical prescription is article 236, which sets three tiers, and the residual limb article 236(c) reaches «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares no comprendidas en los apartados anteriores» and is punished by six months to one year or a fine. Article 237 covers a professional prescribing outside therapeutic purposes and article 238 covers breach of the control measures. Article 235.5 adds confiscation of assets. Article 235.2 provides: «La sanción es de privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte» where any of eight aggravating circumstances applies, among them «si los hechos se realizan con cantidades relativamente grandes de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», international trafficking, use of a person under eighteen, commission near a school, and a link to organised crime. The quantity that triggers it is not stated as a number anywhere in the Code: the phrase is «cantidades relativamente grandes» and no gramme figure appears. It is not mandatory: article 33.1 provides that «La sanción de muerte se ejecuta por fusilamiento y solo se aplica, excepcionalmente por el tribunal, en las formas más graves de consumación de los delitos para los que está establecida», and article 33.2 excludes persons under twenty and women who were pregnant at the time of the act or at sentencing. Those are Cuba's published drug penalties and they are NOT this row's exposure. Whether this substance is a «droga ilícita o sustancia de efectos similares» is exactly the question the source did not settle, and the Code names no substance but cocaína and Cannabis. So no article above is asserted against this row, and none is ruled out. [Likely] That the Code names no substance but cocaína and Cannabis is carried forward from the entry published before this batch and was not re-derived from the Gaceta in this pass; the dossier's own reading agrees with it, placing Cannabis at arts 235.1(d) and 236(b) and cocaína at art 236(a).
If prescribed / medical: Article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», so a substance held under a doctor's prescription is outside the possession offence. Article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, because article 236 turns on whether the holder has «la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa». No Cuban traveller allowance was read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.

Delta-8-THC in Cuba, full detail →

HHC

Legal status: Controlled in Cuba as a cannabis derivative. Article 236(b) covers «Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, o sus derivados». HHC is a hydrogenated cannabis derivative and falls within «o sus derivados» in article 236(b). Where it is synthesised rather than extracted, the residual limb in article 236(c) reaches it instead. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. Trafficking, production, transport, possession with intent to traffic and cultivation are article 235.1, punished by four to ten years. Simple possession without authorisation or a medical prescription is article 236, which sets three tiers, and the residual limb article 236(c) reaches «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares no comprendidas en los apartados anteriores» and is punished by six months to one year or a fine. Article 237 covers a professional prescribing outside therapeutic purposes and article 238 covers breach of the control measures. Article 235.5 adds confiscation of assets. Article 235.2 provides: «La sanción es de privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte» where any of eight aggravating circumstances applies, among them «si los hechos se realizan con cantidades relativamente grandes de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», international trafficking, use of a person under eighteen, commission near a school, and a link to organised crime. The quantity that triggers it is not stated as a number anywhere in the Code: the phrase is «cantidades relativamente grandes» and no gramme figure appears. It is not mandatory: article 33.1 provides that «La sanción de muerte se ejecuta por fusilamiento y solo se aplica, excepcionalmente por el tribunal, en las formas más graves de consumación de los delitos para los que está establecida», and article 33.2 excludes persons under twenty and women who were pregnant at the time of the act or at sentencing. Those are Cuba's published drug penalties and they are NOT this row's exposure. Whether this substance is a «droga ilícita o sustancia de efectos similares» is exactly the question the source did not settle, and the Code names no substance but cocaína and Cannabis. So no article above is asserted against this row, and none is ruled out. [Likely] That the Code names no substance but cocaína and Cannabis is carried forward from the entry published before this batch and was not re-derived from the Gaceta in this pass; the dossier's own reading agrees with it, placing Cannabis at arts 235.1(d) and 236(b) and cocaína at art 236(a).
If prescribed / medical: Article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», so a substance held under a doctor's prescription is outside the possession offence. Article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, because article 236 turns on whether the holder has «la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa». No Cuban traveller allowance was read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.

HHC in Cuba, full detail →

Nicotine

Legal status: Not controlled in Cuba as an illicit drug. Nicotine is not a «droga ilícita» for the purposes of articles 235 to 238. It is a tobacco constituent regulated outside the Código Penal. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Articles 235 to 238 do not apply to it, so no drug penalty attaches. No capital or life exposure arises from this substance as such, because articles 235 to 238 reach only «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares» and this is not one. Article 235.2, which carries «privación perpetua de libertad o muerte», is engaged by the drug offences alone. The name was searched in Ley 151/2022 articles 235 to 238 and returned «sin entrada como droga ilícita».
If prescribed / medical: Article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», so a substance held under a doctor's prescription is outside the possession offence. Article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, because article 236 turns on whether the holder has «la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa». No Cuban traveller allowance was read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.

Nicotine in Cuba, full detail →

Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Controlled in Cuba, and it is the one mixture the Code handles cleanly without a list. The powder sold as tusi is almost never cocaine: analyses consistently find ketamine and MDMA. That does not matter here, because article 236 does not ask what a substance is called or whether it appears on a schedule. It asks whether the thing held is a «droga ilícita o sustancia de efectos similares», and a psychoactive street powder is one however it is composed. Article 236(a) would then reach it if a court found it «de efectos similares o superiores» to cocaína, and article 236(c) reaches it otherwise. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. Trafficking, production, transport, possession with intent to traffic and cultivation are article 235.1, punished by four to ten years. Simple possession without authorisation or a medical prescription is article 236, which sets three tiers, and the residual limb article 236(c) reaches «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares no comprendidas en los apartados anteriores» and is punished by six months to one year or a fine. Article 237 covers a professional prescribing outside therapeutic purposes and article 238 covers breach of the control measures. Article 235.5 adds confiscation of assets. Article 235.2 provides: «La sanción es de privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte» where any of eight aggravating circumstances applies, among them «si los hechos se realizan con cantidades relativamente grandes de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», international trafficking, use of a person under eighteen, commission near a school, and a link to organised crime. The quantity that triggers it is not stated as a number anywhere in the Code: the phrase is «cantidades relativamente grandes» and no gramme figure appears. It is not mandatory: article 33.1 provides that «La sanción de muerte se ejecuta por fusilamiento y solo se aplica, excepcionalmente por el tribunal, en las formas más graves de consumación de los delitos para los que está establecida», and article 33.2 excludes persons under twenty and women who were pregnant at the time of the act or at sentencing. Those are Cuba's published drug penalties and they are NOT this row's exposure. Whether this substance is a «droga ilícita o sustancia de efectos similares» is exactly the question the source did not settle, and the Code names no substance but cocaína and Cannabis. So no article above is asserted against this row, and none is ruled out. [Likely] That the Code names no substance but cocaína and Cannabis is carried forward from the entry published before this batch and was not re-derived from the Gaceta in this pass; the dossier's own reading agrees with it, placing Cannabis at arts 235.1(d) and 236(b) and cocaína at art 236(a).
If prescribed / medical: Article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», so a substance held under a doctor's prescription is outside the possession offence. Article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, because article 236 turns on whether the holder has «la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa». No Cuban traveller allowance was read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.

Pink Cocaine / Tusi in Cuba, full detail →

THC-P

Legal status: Controlled in Cuba as a cannabis derivative. Article 236(b) covers «Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, o sus derivados». THC-P is a tetrahydrocannabinol homologue and therefore a cannabis derivative within «o sus derivados». Its longer side chain matters in a country with a chemical schedule and Cuba has none. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. Trafficking, production, transport, possession with intent to traffic and cultivation are article 235.1, punished by four to ten years. Simple possession without authorisation or a medical prescription is article 236, which sets three tiers, and the residual limb article 236(c) reaches «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares no comprendidas en los apartados anteriores» and is punished by six months to one year or a fine. Article 237 covers a professional prescribing outside therapeutic purposes and article 238 covers breach of the control measures. Article 235.5 adds confiscation of assets. Article 235.2 provides: «La sanción es de privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte» where any of eight aggravating circumstances applies, among them «si los hechos se realizan con cantidades relativamente grandes de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», international trafficking, use of a person under eighteen, commission near a school, and a link to organised crime. The quantity that triggers it is not stated as a number anywhere in the Code: the phrase is «cantidades relativamente grandes» and no gramme figure appears. It is not mandatory: article 33.1 provides that «La sanción de muerte se ejecuta por fusilamiento y solo se aplica, excepcionalmente por el tribunal, en las formas más graves de consumación de los delitos para los que está establecida», and article 33.2 excludes persons under twenty and women who were pregnant at the time of the act or at sentencing. Those are Cuba's published drug penalties and they are NOT this row's exposure. Whether this substance is a «droga ilícita o sustancia de efectos similares» is exactly the question the source did not settle, and the Code names no substance but cocaína and Cannabis. So no article above is asserted against this row, and none is ruled out. [Likely] That the Code names no substance but cocaína and Cannabis is carried forward from the entry published before this batch and was not re-derived from the Gaceta in this pass; the dossier's own reading agrees with it, placing Cannabis at arts 235.1(d) and 236(b) and cocaína at art 236(a).
If prescribed / medical: Article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», so a substance held under a doctor's prescription is outside the possession offence. Article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, because article 236 turns on whether the holder has «la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa». No Cuban traveller allowance was read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.

THC-P in Cuba, full detail →

Tobacco

Legal status: Not controlled in Cuba as an illicit drug. Tobacco is not a «droga ilícita» for the purposes of articles 235 to 238 and Cuba is a tobacco producing state that regulates it as an agricultural and commercial product. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Articles 235 to 238 do not apply to it, so no drug penalty attaches. No capital or life exposure arises from this substance as such, because articles 235 to 238 reach only «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares» and this is not one. Article 235.2, which carries «privación perpetua de libertad o muerte», is engaged by the drug offences alone. The name was searched in Ley 151/2022 articles 235 to 238 and returned «sin entrada como droga ilícita».
If prescribed / medical: Article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», so a substance held under a doctor's prescription is outside the possession offence. Article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, because article 236 turns on whether the holder has «la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa». No Cuban traveller allowance was read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.

Tobacco in Cuba, full detail →

Not individually verified

75 substances are not individually verified for Cuba

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 Cuba’s drug authority or your embassy.

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a lysergamide sold as an...
2-FDCK	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is 2-FDCK, a fluorinated...
25I-NBOMe	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is an N-benzyl...
2C-B	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. 2C-B is named nowhere. Cuba has...
2C-E	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is 2C-E, the 4-ethyl member...
2C-I	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is 2C-I, the 4-iodo member...
2C-T-7	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is 2C-T-7, a thioether...
3-MMC	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is 3-MMC, the meta isomer of...
4-AcO-DMT	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a tryptamine ester, and...
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is 4-HO-MET, a hydroxylated...
5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is 5-MeO-DMT, a methoxylated...
6-APB	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a benzofuran, and it is...
7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is 7-hydroxymitragynine, the...
Adderall	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a prescription...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a fungus, and it is named...
Amphetamine	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. Amphetamine is named nowhere...
Amyl Nitrite	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is an alkyl nitrite with...
Ayahuasca	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a brew containing DMT...
Barbiturates	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a class and not a...
Benzodiazepines	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a class and not a...
Buprenorphine	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. Buprenorphine is named nowhere...
Cathinone	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is the active constituent of...
Clonazepam	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is clonazepam, a...
Codeine	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. Codeine is named nowhere, and a...
Diazepam	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is diazepam, the long acting...
DMT	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a tryptamine occurring in...
DOM	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is DOM, a substituted...
DXM	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is an over the counter...
Ephedrine	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a medicine and a...
Etizolam	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a thienodiazepine sold...
Fentanyl	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. Fentanyl is named nowhere, and...
Gabapentin	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is gabapentin, the older...
GBL	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is an industrial solvent...
GHB	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a depressant with medical...
Heroin	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. Heroin is named nowhere in the...
Hydrocodone	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. Hydrocodone is named nowhere...
Ketamine	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. Ketamine is named nowhere and...
Khat	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a plant chewed for its...
Kratom	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is kratom, the leaf of...
Lorazepam	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is lorazepam, an...
LSA (Morning Glory)	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is an ergoline occurring in...
LSD	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. LSD is named nowhere. A Code...
MDA	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is MDA, a substituted...
MDMA	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. MDMA is named nowhere. Whether...
MDPV	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is MDPV, a pyrovalerone...
Memantine	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a prescription dementia...
Mephedrone (4-MMC)	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is mephedrone, a ring...
Mescaline	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a phenethylamine...
Methadone	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. Methadone is named nowhere. It...
Methamphetamine	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. Methamphetamine is named...
Methaqualone (Quaaludes)	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a withdrawn sedative, and...
Methylone	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is methylone, the beta keto...
Methylphenidate	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a prescription stimulant...
Mitragynine	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is mitragynine, the...
Modafinil	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a prescription...
Morphine	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. Morphine is named nowhere. As a...
MXE	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is MXE, a methoxylated...
Nimetazepam	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a benzodiazepine with no...
Nitrous Oxide	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a medical and catering...
Opium	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. Opium is named nowhere...
Oxycodone	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. Oxycodone is named nowhere and...
PCP	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is PCP, the parent...
Peyote	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a cactus containing...
Phenibut	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a sold-as-supplement...
Poppers	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is an alkyl nitrite sold as...
Pregabalin	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is pregabalin, a...
Psilocybin	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. Psilocybin is named nowhere...
Quetiapine	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a prescription...
Salvia divinorum	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is Salvia divinorum, a sage...
Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a prescription...
Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a class and not a...
Tramadol	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. Tramadol is named nowhere and...
Xanax (Alprazolam)	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is alprazolam, a...
Xylazine	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a veterinary sedative not...
Zolpidem	Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a prescription hypnotic...

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