Is Delta-8-THC legal in Belarus?
- Legal status
- Delta-8-THC is controlled in Belarus. The annexes to Постановление Министерства здравоохранения № 19 от 11 февраля 2015 г. республиканский перечень print the entry «ТЕТРАГИДРОКАННАБИНОЛ» in Cyrillic script, and registry number 5957-75-5 is what fixes which molecule that entry catches. The entry printed is the generic Cyrillic name for tetrahydrocannabinol, but the registry number recorded against it is 5957-75-5, which is the delta-8 isomer specifically. A generic heading pinned to one isomer's registry number is worth stating plainly, because it is the generic heading that does the legal work and the number that does the identifying. The terms taken to the annexes were "delta-8-THC", "tetrahidrokanabinol", and the row accepted was the printed entry itself rather than the paragraph that establishes the list, because the schedule owns the substance entries and the offence article does not. The version read was № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments, record BEL-33.
- Consequences if caught
- Capital exposure: none. Belarus retains capital punishment in its general criminal law, and that is a separate question from what a drug offence carries. Criminal Code Article 328 provides neither the death penalty nor life imprisonment, so a term of years is the whole of the drug scale here. The figure itself is disputed and the dispute is stated rather than hidden: this repair reads Article 328(5) as a twenty year ceiling, the cell it replaces read the same paragraph as twelve to twenty five years, and the sources reachable here do not settle which reading is right. The earlier cell also framed the offence as articles 327 to 328 with a superscript one, a range this repair does not mention at all, so treat the article range as well as the figure as open. That term of years attaches to an offence in a listed substance, and this row is listed: the annex prints «ТЕТРАГИДРОКАННАБИНОЛ» at registry number 5957-75-5, record BEL-33. Belarus sets no lawful personal use allowance, so the size bands in the statute and the subordinate law are what decide which part of Article 328 is engaged, and they are read against this printed entry and not against a family name. An amount below every criminal band can still draw administrative or other liability, which is why there is no quantity in this cell that can be treated as safe. The band is read against a generic heading whose registry number on this record is the delta-8 isomer's, so an analysis that returns a different isomer is being weighed against a number that was recorded for this one.
- If prescribed or medical
- The traveller rule is stated at country level and it is the same for every substance in this set: Belarus provides no lawful personal use allowance and no traveller exemption, and a scheduled medicine has to satisfy Закон Республики Беларусь «О лекарственных средствах» as well as the narcotics annexes, meaning prescription, original packaging, and import and customs formalities. This row's placement is the printed entry «ТЕТРАГИДРОКАННАБИНОЛ» in the республиканский перечень, record BEL-33, so any medicinal route runs through that placement. A criminal quantity band is not a lawful traveller allowance. The source states no medical route specific to Delta-8-THC and none is supplied here. The placement is a generic tetrahydrocannabinol heading carrying this isomer's registry number, so a declaration naming a different isomer would be attaching to a heading recorded here for this one.
- Documentation
- Carry it only with the Belarusian prescription and dispensing paperwork the medicines law requires, in the original dispensing packaging, with the substance named on any declaration the way the annex names it, «ТЕТРАГИДРОКАННАБИНОЛ», and with registry number 5957-75-5 available if the name is queried. The placement at BEL-33 was read against № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments on 20 September 2026. A later amendment can change an entry, so recheck the annexes before travel rather than relying on the date on this cell. State the isomer, because the annex heading is generic and the registry number recorded against it on this row is the delta-8 one.
- Belarus, Постановление Министерства здравоохранения № 19 от 11 февраля 2015 г. республиканский перечень, приложение, списки 1 to 4, record BEL-33
- printed entry «ТЕТРАГИДРОКАННАБИНОЛ», registry number 5957-75-5
- Criminal Code Article 328 supplies the offence and the ceiling, Article 328(5)
- version read: № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments
- read as at 20 September 2026
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Court records
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Other substances confirmed in Belarus
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