Is Diazepam legal in Portugal?
Also known as: valium
- Legal status
- Diazepam is a psychotropic in Tabela IV of Decreto-Lei 15/93; personal use is decriminalised (Lei 30/2000) though the substance remains controlled.
- Consequences if caught
- Personal use is decriminalised (referred to a Dissuasion Commission); trafficking carries multi-year prison terms.
- If prescribed or medical
- Prescribed as a Tabela IV benzodiazepine medicine.
- Documentation
- Carry the Schengen Article 75 certificate and prescription; roughly a 10-daily-dose personal threshold applies before a trafficking presumption.
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Diazepam in related jurisdictions
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Same substance, other countries
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