Legal status in Dominica

Per-substance legal status for Dominica, 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.

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Confirmed legal status

4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: 4-AcO-DMT is controlled in Dominica by derivation, being reached by the Third Schedule to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07, from a printed entry rather than by a printed entry of its own. 4-AcO-DMT is not printed. It is the acetate ester of psilocin, and the psilocin entry is printed in Part I as «Pislocin», quoted exactly as the revised edition sets it. Part I paragraph 3 reaches any ester of a paragraph 1 substance, so the same derivation that reaches psilocybin reaches this compound, and it is a derivation and not a printed entry. Note what paragraph 3 does not say: it reaches an ester and, unlike the corresponding paragraph in the Regulations printed later in this Chapter, it does not add an ether. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. 4-AcO-DMT is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Pislocin» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Pislocin» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Pislocin» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «4-aco-dmt national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation read for this row recorded no printed entry claim, so nothing from it was carried across. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Adderall is a Class B controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part II of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Amphetamine». A branded mixed salt medicine is not printed and could not be; it is reached through its two active constituents, and both are printed in Part II as separate entries, «Amphetamine» and «Dexamphetamine». Part II paragraph 3 then reaches any salt of either, which is what a mixed salt product is made of. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class B drug any substance specified in Part II. Paragraph 3 of Part II extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 4 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «ANFETAMINA; DEXTROANFETAMINA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class B column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries twelve months and $10,000 on summary conviction and two years and $20,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Adderall is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Amphetamine» in Part II, and paragraph 4 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Amphetamine» in Part II of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Amphetamine» in Part II, read on printed page 32 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «adderall national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «ANFETAMINA · DEXTROANFETAMINA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Alcohol

Legal status: Alcohol is not a controlled drug under this Act. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of the Third Schedule, and no form of ethanol is printed in any of the three lists, which were read in full as page images at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages. The Act's subject matter, set out in its long title, is dangerous or otherwise harmful drugs, and beverage alcohol is dealt with by the separate liquor licensing and excise law of Dominica, which was not read for this row and about which nothing is said here. The compilation recorded «ALCOHOL; ETANOL» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The reading is stated as at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages; section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order and this consolidation reproduces none made after that note.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. No limb of the Fourth Schedule attaches to this row, because the Fourth Schedule prosecutes offences under sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21 and 24 of this Act and every one of those offences is defined by reference to a controlled drug, which section 4(1)(a) ties to Parts I, II and III of the Third Schedule. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances: more than two grammes of diacetylmorphine, one gramme of cocaine, fifty-five grammes of opium, three grammes of morphine, and for cannabis or cannabis resin twenty-eight grammes, a figure the 1991 consolidation prints as fifteen and which Act No. 16 of 2020 raised, and this substance is not among them. The Act's true ceiling is not in the Fourth Schedule either: section 16(2) and section 16(5) carry imprisonment for life on conviction on indictment, and a mandatory minimum of seven years on summary conviction, for a drug trafficking offence or possession for the purpose of drug trafficking committed in a school, prison or military premises or with violence, official corruption or a child carrier. Both limbs are keyed to a controlled drug as section 4(1)(a) defines it, so neither can attach to a row that no printed entry places. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding. Nothing here speaks to any non drug statute of Dominica that may regulate it, none of which was read for this row.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter carry the general authority to possess in regulation 5 and the prescription rules in regulations 14 and 15. That machinery is keyed to the Third Schedule, so it reaches this row only so far as a constituent is placed there. Nothing in this Act places this substance, so it supplies no prescription route for it and none is implied.
Documentation: Ask the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival, and ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has amended the Third Schedule since the revision note the Schedule pages carry, and whether any instrument outside this Act bears on this row. This Act is not the whole of Dominican law on this substance and nothing here should be read as though it were. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 7, 27 and 29 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The complete Part I, Part II and Part III lists on printed pages 30, 31 and 32 were read as page images rendered from the scan and not by searching the text layer, which drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts. Those pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «alcohol national source» rather than an address. The compilation recorded «ALCOHOL · ETANOL» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Amphetamine is a Class B controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part II of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Amphetamine». The entry heads the Class B list alphabetically and «Dexamphetamine» is printed four lines below it as a separate entry, so the racemate and the dextro isomer each have their own line and the Class B paragraph 2 stereoisomer rule is not what carries either. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class B drug any substance specified in Part II. Paragraph 3 of Part II extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 4 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «ANFETAMINA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class B column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries twelve months and $10,000 on summary conviction and two years and $20,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Amphetamine is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Amphetamine» in Part II, and paragraph 4 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Amphetamine» in Part II of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Amphetamine» in Part II, read on printed page 32 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «amphetamine national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «ANFETAMINA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Ayahuasca is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «N, N-Dimethyltryptamine». A brewed preparation is not printed and the two plants that make it are not printed either. The route is Part I paragraph 5, which reaches any preparation or other product containing a substance specified in paragraphs 1 to 4, and the substance it contains is the printed tryptamine entry. The harmala alkaloids that make the preparation orally active appear nowhere in Parts I to III, so only one of the brew's two halves is placed. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «DIMETILTRIPTAMINA (DMT)» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Ayahuasca is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «N, N-Dimethyltryptamine» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «N, N-Dimethyltryptamine» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «N, N-Dimethyltryptamine» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «ayahuasca national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «DIMETILTRIPTAMINA (DMT)» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Caffeine

Legal status: Caffeine is not a controlled drug under this Act. It is printed nowhere in Parts I, II or III, which were read in full as page images at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages. The point is worth stating precisely because the Class B and Class C lists are largely stimulant lists, running from «Amphetamine» to «Phenmetrazine» and from «Benzphetamine» to «Prolintane», and caffeine appears in neither. Food and medicine composition is regulated outside this Act by instruments not read for this row. The compilation recorded «CAFEÍNA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The reading is stated as at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages; section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order and this consolidation reproduces none made after that note.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. No limb of the Fourth Schedule attaches to this row, because the Fourth Schedule prosecutes offences under sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21 and 24 of this Act and every one of those offences is defined by reference to a controlled drug, which section 4(1)(a) ties to Parts I, II and III of the Third Schedule. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances: more than two grammes of diacetylmorphine, one gramme of cocaine, fifty-five grammes of opium, three grammes of morphine, and for cannabis or cannabis resin twenty-eight grammes, a figure the 1991 consolidation prints as fifteen and which Act No. 16 of 2020 raised, and this substance is not among them. The Act's true ceiling is not in the Fourth Schedule either: section 16(2) and section 16(5) carry imprisonment for life on conviction on indictment, and a mandatory minimum of seven years on summary conviction, for a drug trafficking offence or possession for the purpose of drug trafficking committed in a school, prison or military premises or with violence, official corruption or a child carrier. Both limbs are keyed to a controlled drug as section 4(1)(a) defines it, so neither can attach to a row that no printed entry places. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding. Nothing here speaks to any non drug statute of Dominica that may regulate it, none of which was read for this row.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter carry the general authority to possess in regulation 5 and the prescription rules in regulations 14 and 15. That machinery is keyed to the Third Schedule, so it reaches this row only so far as a constituent is placed there. Nothing in this Act places this substance, so it supplies no prescription route for it and none is implied.
Documentation: Ask the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival, and ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has amended the Third Schedule since the revision note the Schedule pages carry, and whether any instrument outside this Act bears on this row. This Act is not the whole of Dominican law on this substance and nothing here should be read as though it were. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 7, 27 and 29 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The complete Part I, Part II and Part III lists on printed pages 30, 31 and 32 were read as page images rendered from the scan and not by searching the text layer, which drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts. Those pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «caffeine national source» rather than an address. The compilation recorded «CAFEÍNA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cannabinol

Legal status: Cannabinol is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Cannabinol, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin». The exception is part of the printed entry and not a gloss on it, so cannabinol inside plant material is answered by the Class B cannabis entry and cannabinol outside it by this Class A one; the Part I list prints «Cannabinol derivatives» immediately below as a separate entry, defined in Part IV. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «CANNABINOL» as the printed entry for this row. The Act does carry that word, but not in that form and not on its own: it is a recased fragment of a longer printed entry, and the entry quoted above is what the page actually prints. The rest of that record's quotation column is largely in another language and nothing else from it was carried across.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Cannabinol is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Cannabinol, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Cannabinol, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Cannabinol, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «cannabinol national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «CANNABINOL» as the printed entry for this row. The Act does carry that word, but not in that form and not on its own: it is a recased fragment of a longer printed entry, and the entry quoted above is what the page actually prints. The rest of that record's quotation column is largely in another language and nothing else from it was carried across. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Cannabis is a Class B controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part II of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Cannabis and cannabis resin». Plant and resin are printed as one Class B entry rather than two, while section 2 defines «cannabis» as any plant of the genus Cannabis or any part of it and «cannabis resin» as the separated resin; section 8 adds a separate offence of cultivating the cannabis plant, whose penalty sits in the Fourth Schedule's General column and not in the Class B column. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class B drug any substance specified in Part II. Paragraph 3 of Part II extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 4 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «CANNABIS» as the printed entry for this row. The Act does carry that word, but not in that form and not on its own: it is a recased fragment of a longer printed entry, and the entry quoted above is what the page actually prints. The rest of that record's quotation column is largely in another language and nothing else from it was carried across. This is the one row in this batch where a later amendment was found, read in full and applied, and it changes the practical answer rather than the placement. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, gazetted 30 October 2020, leaves the Third Schedule untouched, so cannabis and cannabis resin remain a Class B entry, but it inserts a new section 7A whose subsection (2) provides that a person who has twenty-eight grammes or less of cannabis or cannabis resin in his possession is not guilty of an offence under section 7(2), while subsection (1) makes it unlawful to have more than that amount. Its subsection (3) treats a conviction before a relevant date for possession of twenty-eight grammes or less as spent, subsection (4) leaves that date to be prescribed by the Minister by Order, and subsection (5) withholds the spent conviction rule from a person under eighteen. So possession at or below the threshold is decriminalised and possession above it is not, and the compilation read alongside the Act was right about this while the consolidation held in this repository predates it by nearly thirty years.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class B column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries twelve months and $10,000 on summary conviction and two years and $20,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) supplies a quantity rule for this substance and for only four others: more than twenty-eight grammes of cannabis or cannabis resin, which section 7(4)(e) prints as fifteen grammes in the consolidation read here and which section 3 of Act No. 16 of 2020 raised by deleting the word fifteen and substituting twenty-eight, above which a person found in possession is deemed to be in possession for the purpose of supplying it to another or for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden of proof on the accused. It is a presumption about the purpose of possession and not a separate offence, and the figures are printed in words rather than in figures. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding. Cultivation is no longer prohibited outright. Section 5 of Act No. 16 of 2020 replaced section 8(1) and inserted section 8(1A), under which it is lawful for a person of eighteen or older to cultivate not more than three plants of the genus Cannabis at the place where he resides permanently; outside that allowance section 8(2) still carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment, taken from the General column of the Fourth Schedule because that row leaves the three class columns blank. The same Act inserted section 7B, which makes it unlawful to smoke or use cannabis or cannabis resin in a public place and an offence to do so, punishable on summary conviction by a fine of one thousand five hundred dollars; section 7B(4) provides that a conviction for that offence shall not form part of the convicted person's criminal record, section 7B(5)(b) excludes from public place a privately occupied residence not used for commercial purposes and a usual place of worship of members of the Rastafarian faith or other faith, and section 7B(6) provides that smoking includes vaping or like means of consuming cannabis.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Cannabis and cannabis resin» in Part II, and paragraph 4 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Cannabis and cannabis resin» in Part II of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Cannabis and cannabis resin» in Part II, read on printed page 32 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «cannabis national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «CANNABIS» as the printed entry for this row. The Act does carry that word, but not in that form and not on its own: it is a recased fragment of a longer printed entry, and the entry quoted above is what the page actually prints. The rest of that record's quotation column is largely in another language and nothing else from it was carried across. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Cocaine is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Cocaine». The entry stands on its own in the Part I list, one line below the printed entry «Coca leaf» and beside «Ecgonine, and any derivative of ecgonine which is convertible to ecgonine or to cocaine», so the leaf, the alkaloid and the ecgonine group are three separate printed entries and this row rests on the second of them. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «COCAÍNA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) supplies a quantity rule for this substance and for only four others: more than one gramme of cocaine is the figure printed at section 7(4)(b), above which a person found in possession is deemed to be in possession for the purpose of supplying it to another or for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden of proof on the accused. It is a presumption about the purpose of possession and not a separate offence, and the figures are printed in words rather than in figures. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Cocaine» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Cocaine» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Cocaine» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «cocaine national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «COCAÍNA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Codeine is a Class B controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part II of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Codeine». The parent is a Class B entry, and the Class B list separately prints «Acetyldihydrocodeine», «Nicocodine», «Norcodeine» and «Diphydrocodeine», the last of those with the letters set as shown in the revised edition. Part II carries no strength or preparation exemption of the kind other Commonwealth schedules use for low dose codeine; its paragraph 4 reaches any preparation containing a paragraph 1 substance. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class B drug any substance specified in Part II. Paragraph 3 of Part II extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 4 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «CODEÍNA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class B column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries twelve months and $10,000 on summary conviction and two years and $20,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Codeine is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Codeine» in Part II, and paragraph 4 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Codeine» in Part II of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Codeine» in Part II, read on printed page 32 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «codeine national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «CODEÍNA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Crack cocaine is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Cocaine». The Act prints no dosage form and no free base wording anywhere in Parts I to III, so this row is reached only once a sample is analytically identified as the printed entry itself; section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence and that is the step this row turns on. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «COCAÍNA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) supplies a quantity rule for this substance and for only four others: more than one gramme of cocaine is the figure printed at section 7(4)(b), and it is expressed as a weight of cocaine rather than of any preparation, above which a person found in possession is deemed to be in possession for the purpose of supplying it to another or for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden of proof on the accused. It is a presumption about the purpose of possession and not a separate offence, and the figures are printed in words rather than in figures. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Cocaine» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Cocaine» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Cocaine» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «crack-cocaine national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «COCAÍNA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Delta-8-THC is controlled in Dominica by derivation, and material still inside the plant is controlled instead under the Class B cannabis entry. It is reached by the Third Schedule to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07, from a printed entry rather than by a printed entry of its own. Delta-8-THC is not printed by name. Part I prints «Cannabinol derivatives» as an entry and Part IV defines that expression as tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin. Delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol is a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol, which is the first of the two limbs the definition names, so it is reached in one step. That is a derivation resting on the Part IV definition and not a printed entry. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Delta-8-THC is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Cannabinol derivatives» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Cannabinol derivatives» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Cannabinol derivatives» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «delta-8-thc national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation read for this row recorded no printed entry claim, so nothing from it was carried across. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: DMT is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «N, N-Dimethyltryptamine». The Act prints the chemical name with a space after the first comma, in the block of chemically named entries at the foot of the Part I column, and prints «N, N-Diethyltrptamine» separately a few lines above it, with the letters of tryptamine transposed in the revised edition's own setting. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «DIMETILTRIPTAMINA (DMT)» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. DMT is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «N, N-Dimethyltryptamine» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «N, N-Dimethyltryptamine» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «N, N-Dimethyltryptamine» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «dmt national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «DIMETILTRIPTAMINA (DMT)» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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DOM

Legal status: DOM is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «2,5-Dimethozy-x4-dimethylphenethylamine». This row is the second entry the compilation missed. The string is quoted exactly as the revised edition prints it, letter for letter, including the z for an x in dimethoxy and the x standing where a Greek alpha belongs; read as intended it is 2,5-dimethoxy-alpha,4-dimethylphenethylamine, which is DOM. That reading is stated as a reading of a corrupted line and not as a second quotation. It is the only substituted phenethylamine printed anywhere in Parts I to III. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation read for this row recorded no printed entry claim, so nothing from it was carried across.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. DOM is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «2,5-Dimethozy-x4-dimethylphenethylamine» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «2,5-Dimethozy-x4-dimethylphenethylamine» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «2,5-Dimethozy-x4-dimethylphenethylamine» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «dom national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation read for this row recorded no printed entry claim, so nothing from it was carried across. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Fentanyl is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Fentanyl». The parent compound alone is printed. Part I carries no analogue clause and no family wording for this entry, and its paragraphs 2 to 5 reach only a stereoisomeric form, an ester, a salt and a preparation, so a ring substituted or amide modified fentanyl is not shown to be reached by the printed text. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «FENTANILO» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Fentanyl is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Fentanyl» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Fentanyl» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Fentanyl» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «fentanyl national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «FENTANILO» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Heroin is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Diamorphine». The Act prints the pharmacopoeial name and not the street one; section 7(4)(a) then prints «diacetylmorphine (heroin)» in its own threshold limb, which is the only place in the Chapter where the word heroin appears at all. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «Diamorphine» as the printed entry for this row. That string is English and it is printed in the Act exactly as recorded, so it was checked against the page image and kept. It is one of only two strings in that record's whole quotation column that survives the check unaltered.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) supplies a quantity rule for this substance and for only four others: more than two grammes of diacetylmorphine is the figure printed at section 7(4)(a), the highest of the five opioid figures in that subsection, above which a person found in possession is deemed to be in possession for the purpose of supplying it to another or for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden of proof on the accused. It is a presumption about the purpose of possession and not a separate offence, and the figures are printed in words rather than in figures. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Diamorphine» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Diamorphine» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Diamorphine» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «heroin national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «Diamorphine» as the printed entry for this row. That string is English and it is printed in the Act exactly as recorded, so it was checked against the page image and kept. It is one of only two strings in that record's whole quotation column that survives the check unaltered. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Hydrocodone is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Hydrocodone». The entry is printed in Part I between «Furethidine» and «Hydromorphinol», so it is a Class A drug in Dominica and not a Class B one; the Class B list prints «Codeine» and «Acetyldihydrocodeine» but no hydrocodone. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «HIDROCODONA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Hydrocodone is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Hydrocodone» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Hydrocodone» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Hydrocodone» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «hydrocodone national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «HIDROCODONA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: LSA is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Lysergamide». This row is the entry the compilation missed. Lysergamide is d-lysergic acid amide, which is ergine, which is LSA, and it is printed in Part I as an entry in its own right between «Levorphanol» and «Lysergide and other». The compilation recorded ergometrine and ergine as the printed entry for this row; neither word is in the Act, and the Act's own name for the substance was on the page. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «ERGOMETRINA; ERGINA (LSA)» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. LSA is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Lysergamide» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Lysergamide» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Lysergamide» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «lsa national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «ERGOMETRINA · ERGINA (LSA)» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: LSD is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Lysergide and other». The printed entry is truncated by the typesetting: «Lysergide and other» is the last line of the Part I column on printed page 30 and «N-alkyl derivates» is the last line of the second column on printed page 31, with the whole Class A list between them. The two are quoted here as each page prints them and the joined phrase is not offered as a quotation. Lysergide itself is unambiguous on the page and is what this row rests on; the separate entry «Lysergamide» is printed four lines above it. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «Lysergide» as the printed entry for this row. That word is English and it is on the page, but it is a fragment: the Act prints «Lysergide and other» and sets the rest of the entry on the following printed page, so the record quoted part of an entry rather than an entry.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. LSD is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Lysergide and other» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Lysergide and other» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Lysergide and other» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «lsd national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «Lysergide» as the printed entry for this row. That word is English and it is on the page, but it is a fragment: the Act prints «Lysergide and other» and sets the rest of the entry on the following printed page, so the record quoted part of an entry rather than an entry. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Mescaline is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Mescaline». The entry names the alkaloid and no plant. Part IV defines the plant materials this Schedule uses, and its four definitions are cannabinol derivatives, coca leaf, concentrate of poppy-straw and the opium group; no cactus appears among them. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «MESCALINA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Mescaline is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Mescaline» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Mescaline» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Mescaline» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «mescaline national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «MESCALINA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Methadone is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Methadone». The Part I list prints the parent beside «Methadyl acetate», «Alphamethadol», «Betamethadol» and «Noracymethadol», each as its own entry, so the methadol family is enumerated rather than left to a generic clause and this row rests on the parent line only. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation read for this row recorded no printed entry claim, so nothing from it was carried across.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Methadone is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Methadone» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Methadone» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Methadone» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «methadone national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation read for this row recorded no printed entry claim, so nothing from it was carried across. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Methamphetamine is a Class B controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part II of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Methylamphetamine». The Act uses the older name, and this is one of only two strings the compilation recorded for Dominica that is actually printed in the Act. It is a Class B drug here and not a Class A one, which is the practical difference this row turns on: the possession ceiling is the Class B column and not the Class A column. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class B drug any substance specified in Part II. Paragraph 3 of Part II extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 4 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «Methylamphetamine» as the printed entry for this row. That string is English and it is printed in the Act exactly as recorded, so it was checked against the page image and kept. It is one of only two strings in that record's whole quotation column that survives the check unaltered.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class B column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries twelve months and $10,000 on summary conviction and two years and $20,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Methamphetamine is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Methylamphetamine» in Part II, and paragraph 4 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Methylamphetamine» in Part II of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Methylamphetamine» in Part II, read on printed page 32 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «methamphetamine national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «Methylamphetamine» as the printed entry for this row. That string is English and it is printed in the Act exactly as recorded, so it was checked against the page image and kept. It is one of only two strings in that record's whole quotation column that survives the check unaltered. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Methaqualone is a Class C controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part III of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Methaqualone». It is the only sedative printed in Parts I to III. The rest of the Class C list, from «Benzphetamine» to «Prolintane», is a stimulant and anorectic list, so this entry sits alone in its pharmacology and the Class C penalty column is what applies. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class C drug any substance specified in Part III. Paragraph 3 of Part III extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 4 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «METACUALONA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class C column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries six months and $10,000 on summary conviction and two years and $20,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries two years and $75,000 on summary conviction and ten years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries two years and $75,000 on summary conviction and ten years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries two years and $75,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Methaqualone is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Methaqualone» in Part III, and paragraph 4 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Methaqualone» in Part III of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Methaqualone» in Part III, read on printed page 32 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «methaqualone national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «METACUALONA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Methylphenidate is a Class B controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part II of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Methylphenidate». The entry is printed in the second Class B column between «Methylamphetamine» and «Nicocodine». The Class C list, which is where the remaining prescribed stimulants sit, prints «Pemoline», «Pipradrol» and «Prolintane» but not this one, so the class placement is Class B. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class B drug any substance specified in Part II. Paragraph 3 of Part II extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 4 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «METILFENIDATO» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class B column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries twelve months and $10,000 on summary conviction and two years and $20,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Methylphenidate is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Methylphenidate» in Part II, and paragraph 4 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Methylphenidate» in Part II of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Methylphenidate» in Part II, read on printed page 32 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «methylphenidate national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «METILFENIDATO» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Morphine

Legal status: Morphine is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Morphine». The parent entry is printed alone, and the Part I list separately prints «Morphine methobromide, morphine N-oxide and other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives» and «Dihydromorphine», so the pentavalent group and the dihydro compound are their own entries and are not folded into this one. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «MORFINA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) supplies a quantity rule for this substance and for only four others: more than three grammes of morphine is the figure printed at section 7(4)(d), above which a person found in possession is deemed to be in possession for the purpose of supplying it to another or for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden of proof on the accused. It is a presumption about the purpose of possession and not a separate offence, and the figures are printed in words rather than in figures. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Morphine» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Morphine» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Morphine» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «morphine national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «MORFINA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Nicotine

Legal status: Nicotine is not a controlled drug under this Act. It is printed nowhere in Parts I, II or III, read in full as page images at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages. No plant alkaloid outside the cannabis, coca and opium poppy groups is printed in the Schedule at all, and Part IV's definitions, which are the Schedule's own account of the plant material it covers, name only those three groups. Tobacco and nicotine products are governed by separate Dominican law not read for this row. The compilation recorded «NICOTINA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The reading is stated as at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages; section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order and this consolidation reproduces none made after that note.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. No limb of the Fourth Schedule attaches to this row, because the Fourth Schedule prosecutes offences under sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21 and 24 of this Act and every one of those offences is defined by reference to a controlled drug, which section 4(1)(a) ties to Parts I, II and III of the Third Schedule. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances: more than two grammes of diacetylmorphine, one gramme of cocaine, fifty-five grammes of opium, three grammes of morphine, and for cannabis or cannabis resin twenty-eight grammes, a figure the 1991 consolidation prints as fifteen and which Act No. 16 of 2020 raised, and this substance is not among them. The Act's true ceiling is not in the Fourth Schedule either: section 16(2) and section 16(5) carry imprisonment for life on conviction on indictment, and a mandatory minimum of seven years on summary conviction, for a drug trafficking offence or possession for the purpose of drug trafficking committed in a school, prison or military premises or with violence, official corruption or a child carrier. Both limbs are keyed to a controlled drug as section 4(1)(a) defines it, so neither can attach to a row that no printed entry places. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding. Nothing here speaks to any non drug statute of Dominica that may regulate it, none of which was read for this row.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter carry the general authority to possess in regulation 5 and the prescription rules in regulations 14 and 15. That machinery is keyed to the Third Schedule, so it reaches this row only so far as a constituent is placed there. Nothing in this Act places this substance, so it supplies no prescription route for it and none is implied.
Documentation: Ask the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival, and ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has amended the Third Schedule since the revision note the Schedule pages carry, and whether any instrument outside this Act bears on this row. This Act is not the whole of Dominican law on this substance and nothing here should be read as though it were. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 7, 27 and 29 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The complete Part I, Part II and Part III lists on printed pages 30, 31 and 32 were read as page images rendered from the scan and not by searching the text layer, which drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts. Those pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «nicotine national source» rather than an address. The compilation recorded «NICOTINA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Opium

Legal status: Opium is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Opium, whether raw, prepared of medicinal». The printed entry runs across four short lines of the Part I column and reads as set out here, which is how the revised edition prints it; Part IV then defines «medicinal opium» and «raw opium» separately, and prepared opium is reached instead by section 11, which creates its own offences relating to opium. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «OPIO» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) supplies a quantity rule for this substance and for only four others: more than fifty-five grammes of opium is the figure printed at section 7(4)(c), and it is by a wide margin the largest of the five, above which a person found in possession is deemed to be in possession for the purpose of supplying it to another or for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden of proof on the accused. It is a presumption about the purpose of possession and not a separate offence, and the figures are printed in words rather than in figures. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Opium, whether raw, prepared of medicinal» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Opium, whether raw, prepared of medicinal» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Opium, whether raw, prepared of medicinal» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «opium national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «OPIO» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Oxycodone is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Oxycodone». The entry sits between «Opium, whether raw, prepared of medicinal» and «Oxymorphone» in the Part I column, so the two oxy compounds are printed as separate entries and neither is reached through the other. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «OXICODONA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Oxycodone is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Oxycodone» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Oxycodone» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Oxycodone» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «oxycodone national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «OXICODONA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Peyote

Legal status: Peyote is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07. Part I of the Third Schedule prints the entry «Mescaline». No cactus is printed anywhere in Parts I to III, and the Schedule's own plant definitions in Part IV cover only cannabis material, coca leaf and the opium poppy group. So the cactus is not a printed entry and this row is reached only through the alkaloid it contains, which is. Whether plant material in which mescaline occurs naturally is itself caught is not answered by the printed text, which is the live question for this row and not for the mescaline row. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The compilation recorded «MESCALINA; LOPHOPHORA WILLIAMSII» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Peyote is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Mescaline» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Mescaline» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Mescaline» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «peyote national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «MESCALINA · LOPHOPHORA WILLIAMSII» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Pink cocaine is a market label for a dyed powder whose contents vary between samples, and the Act answers a label only through what a sample is analytically shown to contain. The printed entry «Cocaine» is Class A, so a sample containing cocaine is a Class A case and carries the section 7(4)(b) figure of more than one gramme. Samples of this label are more often found to contain ketamine, MDMA or a cathinone, and none of those three is printed anywhere in Parts I to III on a reading of the complete lists at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages. So the label splits: one constituent is squarely placed and the commoner ones are not established, and section 29 makes the analyst's certificate the step that decides which. The compilation recorded «COCAÍNA ROSA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The reading is stated as at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages; section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order and this consolidation reproduces none made after that note.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. What a sample of this label attracts depends on what it is shown to contain, and the Fourth Schedule sets every maximum by the class of drug involved. For a Class A constituent, possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment and possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. For a Class B constituent the possession figures are twelve months and $10,000 on summary conviction and two years and $20,000 on indictment, and for a Class C constituent six months and $10,000 on summary conviction and two years and $20,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances: more than two grammes of diacetylmorphine, one gramme of cocaine, fifty-five grammes of opium, three grammes of morphine, and for cannabis or cannabis resin twenty-eight grammes, a figure the 1991 consolidation prints as fifteen and which Act No. 16 of 2020 raised, so a quantity presumption attaches only where a sample is shown to be one of those five. Section 29 makes the analyst's certificate admissible in evidence and it is the step that decides which column applies. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter carry the general authority to possess in regulation 5 and the prescription rules in regulations 14 and 15. That machinery is keyed to the Third Schedule, so it reaches this row only so far as a constituent is placed there. Where a sample contains a listed constituent the authorisation question is asked about that constituent and not about the label.
Documentation: Ask the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival, and ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has amended the Third Schedule since the revision note the Schedule pages carry, and whether any instrument outside this Act bears on this row. Because this is a label and not a substance, the only reliable answer about a particular sample comes from analysis, which section 29 makes admissible in evidence. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 7, 27 and 29 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The complete Part I, Part II and Part III lists on printed pages 30, 31 and 32 were read as page images rendered from the scan and not by searching the text layer, which drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts. Those pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «pink-cocaine national source» rather than an address. The compilation recorded «COCAÍNA ROSA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Poppers

Legal status: Poppers is a market label for alkyl nitrites, most often amyl, butyl or isopropyl nitrite. No alkyl nitrite is printed anywhere in Parts I to III, read as page images across the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages. Every chemical entry in Part I is a named alkaloid, opioid, tryptamine or phenethylamine and the Schedule prints no nitrite, no ester of nitrous acid and no inhalant heading at all. So this Act does not reach the label, and nothing here speaks to the separate medicines, poisons or consumer product law of Dominica, which was not read for this row. The compilation read for this row recorded no printed entry claim, so nothing from it was carried across. The reading is stated as at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages; section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order and this consolidation reproduces none made after that note.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. What a sample of this label attracts depends on what it is shown to contain, and the Fourth Schedule sets every maximum by the class of drug involved. For a Class A constituent, possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment and possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. For a Class B constituent the possession figures are twelve months and $10,000 on summary conviction and two years and $20,000 on indictment, and for a Class C constituent six months and $10,000 on summary conviction and two years and $20,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances: more than two grammes of diacetylmorphine, one gramme of cocaine, fifty-five grammes of opium, three grammes of morphine, and for cannabis or cannabis resin twenty-eight grammes, a figure the 1991 consolidation prints as fifteen and which Act No. 16 of 2020 raised, so a quantity presumption attaches only where a sample is shown to be one of those five. Section 29 makes the analyst's certificate admissible in evidence and it is the step that decides which column applies. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter carry the general authority to possess in regulation 5 and the prescription rules in regulations 14 and 15. That machinery is keyed to the Third Schedule, so it reaches this row only so far as a constituent is placed there. Where a sample contains a listed constituent the authorisation question is asked about that constituent and not about the label.
Documentation: Ask the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival, and ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has amended the Third Schedule since the revision note the Schedule pages carry, and whether any instrument outside this Act bears on this row. Because this is a label and not a substance, the only reliable answer about a particular sample comes from analysis, which section 29 makes admissible in evidence. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 7, 27 and 29 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The complete Part I, Part II and Part III lists on printed pages 30, 31 and 32 were read as page images rendered from the scan and not by searching the text layer, which drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts. Those pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «poppers national source» rather than an address. The compilation read for this row recorded no printed entry claim, so nothing from it was carried across. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Psilocybin is controlled in Dominica by derivation, being reached by the Third Schedule to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07, from a printed entry rather than by a printed entry of its own. Psilocybin is not printed in Parts I to III under that name or any other. What is printed, in the second Part I column between «concentrate of poppy-straw» and «Racemethorphan», is «Pislocin», quoted exactly as the revised edition sets it and read as psilocin; the printer's transposition is in the printed page, as the page image shows. Psilocybin is the phosphate ester of psilocin, and Part I paragraph 3 reaches any ester of a substance specified in paragraph 1. That is a derivation and not a printed entry: it imports a chemical premise about the relationship between the two compounds which the Act itself does not state. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule and section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The string «PSILOCIBINA» does not appear anywhere in this Act, which is written in English.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets every maximum by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances only, diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis or cannabis resin. Psilocybin is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess to the persons it names, regulation 14 prescribes the form of a prescription and regulation 15 governs supply on a prescription, while section 32 provides for licences and authorities issued under the Act. A prescription written outside Dominica is not an authority under those Regulations and does not become one on arrival. The entry this row rests on is «Pislocin» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a dispensed medicine is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment, and put the question to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says; section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for certain offences and section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Pislocin» in Part I of the Third Schedule, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». Ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed that Part since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 29 and 32 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The entry relied on for this row is «Pislocin» in Part I, read on printed page 30 or 31 as a page image rendered from the scan, because the text layer of this scan silently drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts · the complete Class A, Class B and Class C lists were read that way and not by searching the text. The Third Schedule pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991» and the Fourth Schedule figures quoted here were read off the page images of printed pages 34 and 35. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «psilocybin national source» rather than an address, and no per row source exists. The compilation recorded «PSILOCIBINA» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated October 8, 2026

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Synthetic cannabinoids is a market label covering many chemically distinct compounds, and the Act reaches a compound only through a printed entry or a printed definition. The only definition that could bear on the label is Part IV's, which defines «cannabinol derivatives» as tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives. That is a closed description of the cannabinol skeleton. The indazole and indole carboxamides sold under this label are not built on that skeleton and are not reached by it, and no generic clause covering compounds by receptor activity appears anywhere in Parts I to III. So the label is answered compound by compound, and for the carboxamide families the answer from this instrument is that nothing places them. The compilation recorded «CANNABINOIDES SINTÉTICOS» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The reading is stated as at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages; section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order and this consolidation reproduces none made after that note.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. What a sample of this label attracts depends on what it is shown to contain, and the Fourth Schedule sets every maximum by the class of drug involved. For a Class A constituent, possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment and possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. For a Class B constituent the possession figures are twelve months and $10,000 on summary conviction and two years and $20,000 on indictment, and for a Class C constituent six months and $10,000 on summary conviction and two years and $20,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances: more than two grammes of diacetylmorphine, one gramme of cocaine, fifty-five grammes of opium, three grammes of morphine, and for cannabis or cannabis resin twenty-eight grammes, a figure the 1991 consolidation prints as fifteen and which Act No. 16 of 2020 raised, so a quantity presumption attaches only where a sample is shown to be one of those five. Section 29 makes the analyst's certificate admissible in evidence and it is the step that decides which column applies. Section 16 is where the real maximum lives and it is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. These figures are the ones the Fourth Schedule carries in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991». They are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today: an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance, and one such amendment has been found and read. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter carry the general authority to possess in regulation 5 and the prescription rules in regulations 14 and 15. That machinery is keyed to the Third Schedule, so it reaches this row only so far as a constituent is placed there. Where a sample contains a listed constituent the authorisation question is asked about that constituent and not about the label.
Documentation: Ask the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival, and ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has amended the Third Schedule since the revision note the Schedule pages carry, and whether any instrument outside this Act bears on this row. Because this is a label and not a substance, the only reliable answer about a particular sample comes from analysis, which section 29 makes admissible in evidence. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 7, 27 and 29 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The complete Part I, Part II and Part III lists on printed pages 30, 31 and 32 were read as page images rendered from the scan and not by searching the text layer, which drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts. Those pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «synthetic-cannabinoids national source» rather than an address. The compilation recorded «CANNABINOIDES SINTÉTICOS» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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THC-P

Legal status: THC-P is a Class A controlled drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07, reached by derivation from a printed definition rather than by a printed entry of its own. THC-P is not printed by name. Part I of the Third Schedule prints «Cannabinol derivatives» as an entry, and Part IV, on printed page 33, defines that expression as «the following substances, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin, namely tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives». THC-P, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabiphorol, is PubChem CID 6453074, named «(6aR,10aR)-3-heptyl-6,6,9-trimethyl-6a,7,8,10a-tetrahydrobenzo[c]chromen-1-ol», and delta-9-THC is CID 16078, named «(6aR,10aR)-6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6a,7,8,10a-tetrahydrobenzo[c]chromen-1-ol». The two share the tetrahydro skeleton and differ only in the alkyl group at the 3-position, a heptyl in place of a pentyl, so THC-P is a 3-alkyl homologue of a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol, which is what the second limb names. That is one step and not two. This row was previously left open on the reading that reaching it took two steps the definition did not say could be combined, and that the Act supplies no range of chain lengths. The second limb names homologues of the tetrahydro derivatives in terms, so no combination is needed, and the definition sets no limit on the alkyl group, so a heptyl is within it on the face of the words. The same chemical premise is imported here as in the delta-8-THC row, and it is a premise about the compound and not something the Act states. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs in the United Kingdom, construing the identical words in the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, reported in 2025 that variants of THC «where the side-chain is a different alkyl chain (e.g. THCH, THCP)» are «all covered by the current UK generic control». That is a UK body reading the same words and is persuasive only, not Dominican authority, and in the UK those words sit in Class B, while Dominica prints «Cannabinol derivatives» in Part I, which is Class A. The exception means THC-P occurring naturally inside cannabis plant material or resin answers to the Class B cannabis entry instead. The Act does not settle the common retail form, hemp flower sprayed with THC-P made outside the plant: section 2 defines «cannabis» as «any plant of the genus Cannabis or any part of any such plant» with no potency figure, so the flower itself is Class B, and whether added THC-P on it is «contained in cannabis» within the exception or is a separate Class A product under paragraph 5 of Part I is not answered by the printed words. Section 4(1)(a) makes a controlled drug any substance for the time being specified in Parts I, II or III of that Schedule, section 4(1)(b) makes a Class A drug any substance specified in Part I, and section 4(2) gives Part IV effect for the meanings of expressions used in the Schedule. Paragraph 4 of Part I extends the entry to any salt of the listed substance and paragraph 5 to any preparation or other product containing it. The placement is stated as at the revision this text carries: the Third Schedule occupies printed pages 30 to 33 and those pages are authorised by the footer note «L.R.O. 1/1991». Section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, and this consolidation reproduces no Order made after that authorisation, so the placement stated here is a floor and not a closed account of the position today. The Government of Dominica laws site itself was still serving this chapter on 24 April 2025, and the Internet Archive capture of that day is byte-identical to the copy read, so no reconsolidation of the chapter had been published by then; an Order under section 4(3) would not appear in that file either way.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. The Fourth Schedule, headed «PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES» and given effect by section 27, sets the maximum for each dealing and possession offence by the class of drug involved, so the Class A column governs this row; cultivation, the opium offences, safe custody and several administrative offences sit in its General column instead. Possession under section 7(2) carries eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment, and so does production under section 6(2). Importation or exportation under section 5(3) carries three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(4) carries the Act's only presumption of supply from quantity and it names five substances: more than two grammes of diacetylmorphine, one gramme of cocaine, fifty-five grammes of opium, three grammes of morphine, and for cannabis or cannabis resin twenty-eight grammes, a figure the 1991 consolidation prints as fifteen and which Act No. 16 of 2020 raised. THC-P is not among the five, so no quantity presumption attaches to this row and the class column alone decides the ceiling. The possession allowance in section 7A, inserted by Act No. 16 of 2020, is written for «cannabis or cannabis resin» and is not shown to reach a cannabinol derivative held outside plant material, so it is not applied here. The Fourth Schedule prints its money figures with a dollar sign and does not name the currency in the table itself. The Act's true ceiling is in section 16, which is not among the offences the Fourth Schedule prosecutes. Section 16(2) reaches a drug trafficking offence, or possession of a controlled drug for the purpose of drug trafficking, committed in any school, prison or military premises; section 16(5) reaches the same two offences where the person uses violence, corrupts or attempts to corrupt an official of the State, or uses a child as carrier. Each carries on summary conviction a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or three times the street value of the drug where there is evidence of it and that is greater, together with imprisonment which may extend to fifteen years but shall not be less than seven; and on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 16(3) adds that a person found in possession of a controlled drug in any school premises is deemed to have it for the purpose of drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, with the burden on the accused, and section 16(4) extends school premises to playing fields and other premises maintained for pupils whether or not within the curtilage of the school. Section 17(4) separately punishes handling the proceeds of drug trafficking with fourteen years and fifty thousand dollars on indictment. The Fourth Schedule figures above are the ones carried in the consolidation read, whose Schedule pages are authorised to «L.R.O. 1/1991», and the section 16 and 17 figures are printed in those sections; all of them are stated as at that authorisation and not as a claim about today, because an amendment can lower or remove a penalty as readily as an Order under section 4(3) can add a substance. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts, and it shows that the consolidation held here is not current.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, so for a traveller the question is authorisation and not quantity. The Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations are printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter: regulation 5 gives a general authority to possess only to the persons it names, which are police officers, carriers, post office staff, customs and excise officers and forensic laboratory staff acting in the course of duty, and a person conveying the drug to someone authorised to have it. There is no prescription route for this row at all, wherever the prescription was written. The Regulations sort controlled drugs into four Schedules of their own, and their Fourth Schedule, on printed page 59, names «Cannabinol derivatives» in paragraph 1(a); regulation 9(2), which lets a person have a drug for administration for medical, dental or veterinary purposes in accordance with the directions of a practitioner, reaches only drugs in the Second or Third Schedule, and regulations 6 and 7, on administration and supply, reach only the First and Second. The only routes left are licences of the Minister, under section 5(2)(b) of the Act to import and under regulation 4 to produce, supply or possess, read with section 32, and neither is a route a traveller can use on arrival. Regulations 14 and 15 govern the form of a prescription and supply on one, and regulation 15(1)(b) forbids supplying a controlled drug on a prescription unless the address of the person issuing it is an address within Dominica. Regulation 4 as printed lifts section 6(1) or «7(4)», which appears to mean section 7(1), the possession rule. The entry this row rests on is «Cannabinol derivatives» in Part I, and paragraph 5 of that Part reaches any preparation or other product containing it, which is what a vape cartridge or an edible is. Section 13 lets the Minister direct special precautions for the safe custody of controlled drugs at particular premises, and sections 14 and 15 let him prohibit a named practitioner from prescribing or supplying them.
Documentation: No document a traveller can carry makes THC-P lawful in Dominica: it is a Class A drug on the reading above, no prescription reaches it, and the only route the Regulations provide is a Minister's licence under regulation 4, on such terms as the Minister sets under section 32, and nothing read describes one being granted to a traveller. Do not bring THC-P products, and do not rely on a label that says hemp or legal, because section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so what a sample is is settled by analysis and not by what the packet says. Section 30 provides a defence of lack of knowledge in proceedings for offences under sections 6(2), 6(3), 7(2), 7(3), 8(2) and 11 only, so it is not available against a charge of importation under section 5(3), which is one of the charges a traveller arriving with the product can face; and even where it applies, section 30(3)(a) makes it no defence to show only that you did not know which controlled drug it was. Section 28 provides for forfeiture. The entry read for this row was «Cannabinol derivatives» in Part I of the Third Schedule, with its meaning in Part IV, on printed pages 30 to 33 carrying the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». If the question matters, put it to the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel, and ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has changed Part I or one under section 4(4) has changed Part IV since, because this consolidation would not show it. The instrument was read on 3 October 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 16, 17, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 32, the Third Schedule Parts I and IV and the Fourth Schedule, and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations, regulations 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 14 and 15 and their Fourth Schedule on printed page 59, with sections 8, 11, 13, 14 and 15 of the Act for the General column and the practitioner directions · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The Part I entry «Cannabinol derivatives» was read on printed page 30 and the Part IV definition on printed page 33, as page images and not by searching the text, and the Fourth Schedule figures were read off the page images of printed pages 34 to 38. The same file, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, is what the Government of Dominica laws site served on 24 April 2025, read through the Internet Archive capture at https://web.archive.org/web/20250424200632/http://dominica.gov.dm/laws/chapters/chap40-07.pdf because on 3 October 2026 dominica.gov.dm did not resolve in DNS to curl, to Python urllib or to WebFetch. This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «thc-p national source» rather than an address. The compilation read for this row recorded no printed entry claim, so nothing from it was carried across. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full, originally published at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf and read on 3 October 2026 through the Internet Archive capture at https://web.archive.org/web/20251022235219/https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Chemical identity: PubChem compound records CID 6453074, tetrahydrocannabiphorol, and CID 16078, dronabinol, read through the PubChem PUG REST service at https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/name/tetrahydrocannabiphorol/property/IUPACName,MolecularFormula/JSON and https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/name/dronabinol/property/IUPACName,MolecularFormula/JSON. Persuasive reading of the identical definition: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, «'Semi-synthetic' Cannabinoids: Cannabinoids related to tetrahydro-cannabinol and cannabidiol», 2025, paragraph 3.11 and the annex on broadening the UK generic, at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/682f3f03c054883884bff465/ACMD+Report+-+Semi-synthetic+Cannabinoids+Cannabinoids+related+to+tetrahydro-cannabinol+and+cannabidiol+redacted+FINAL2.pdf, sha256 f343579f9678e8f01d99c01e1f7c6bd453dbbff7bee8739338bb101777694e14. Read as at 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Tobacco

Legal status: Tobacco is not a controlled drug under this Act. No plant of the genus Nicotiana is printed in Parts I, II or III, read in full as page images at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages, and the only plant materials the Schedule carries are «Cannabis and cannabis resin» in Class B and «Coca leaf», «Opium, whether raw, prepared of medicinal» and «Poppy-straw and concentrate of poppy-straw» in Class A. Tobacco control in Dominica sits in separate legislation which was not read for this row. The compilation recorded «TABACO» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act; the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The reading is stated as at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages; section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order and this consolidation reproduces none made after that note.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. No limb of the Fourth Schedule attaches to this row, because the Fourth Schedule prosecutes offences under sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21 and 24 of this Act and every one of those offences is defined by reference to a controlled drug, which section 4(1)(a) ties to Parts I, II and III of the Third Schedule. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances: more than two grammes of diacetylmorphine, one gramme of cocaine, fifty-five grammes of opium, three grammes of morphine, and for cannabis or cannabis resin twenty-eight grammes, a figure the 1991 consolidation prints as fifteen and which Act No. 16 of 2020 raised, and this substance is not among them. The Act's true ceiling is not in the Fourth Schedule either: section 16(2) and section 16(5) carry imprisonment for life on conviction on indictment, and a mandatory minimum of seven years on summary conviction, for a drug trafficking offence or possession for the purpose of drug trafficking committed in a school, prison or military premises or with violence, official corruption or a child carrier. Both limbs are keyed to a controlled drug as section 4(1)(a) defines it, so neither can attach to a row that no printed entry places. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding. Nothing here speaks to any non drug statute of Dominica that may regulate it, none of which was read for this row.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter carry the general authority to possess in regulation 5 and the prescription rules in regulations 14 and 15. That machinery is keyed to the Third Schedule, so it reaches this row only so far as a constituent is placed there. Nothing in this Act places this substance, so it supplies no prescription route for it and none is implied.
Documentation: Ask the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission before you travel rather than on arrival, and ask specifically whether an Order under section 4(3) has amended the Third Schedule since the revision note the Schedule pages carry, and whether any instrument outside this Act bears on this row. This Act is not the whole of Dominican law on this substance and nothing here should be read as though it were. The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.

Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 7, 27 and 29 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The complete Part I, Part II and Part III lists on printed pages 30, 31 and 32 were read as page images rendered from the scan and not by searching the text layer, which drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts. Those pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «tobacco national source» rather than an address. The compilation recorded «TABACO» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026

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Not individually verified

53 substances are not individually verified for Dominica

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 Dominica’s drug authority or your embassy.

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed. No entry for 1P-LSD was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
2-FDCK	Not confirmed. No entry for 2-FDCK was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
25I-NBOMe	Not confirmed. No entry for 25I-NBOMe was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
2C-B	Not confirmed. No entry for 2C-B was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
2C-E	Not confirmed. No entry for 2C-E was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
2C-I	Not confirmed. No entry for 2C-I was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
2C-T-7	Not confirmed. No entry for 2C-T-7 was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
3-MMC	Not confirmed. No entry for 3-MMC was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed. No entry for 4-HO-MET was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)	Not confirmed. No entry for 5-MeO-DMT was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
6-APB	Not confirmed. No entry for 6-APB was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)	Not confirmed. No entry for 7-hydroxymitragynine was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed. No entry for Amanita muscaria was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the...
Amyl Nitrite	Not confirmed. No entry for Amyl nitrite was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Barbiturates	Not confirmed. No entry for Barbiturates was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Benzodiazepines	Not confirmed. No entry for Benzodiazepines was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the...
Buprenorphine	Not confirmed. No entry for Buprenorphine was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the...
Cathinone	Not confirmed. No entry for Cathinone was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
CBD	Not confirmed. No entry for CBD was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Clonazepam	Not confirmed. No entry for Clonazepam was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Diazepam	Not confirmed. No entry for Diazepam was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
DXM	Not confirmed. No entry for DXM was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Ephedrine	Not confirmed. No entry for Ephedrine was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Etizolam	Not confirmed. No entry for Etizolam was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Gabapentin	Not confirmed. No entry for Gabapentin was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
GBL	Not confirmed. No entry for GBL was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
GHB	Not confirmed. No entry for GHB was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
HHC	Not confirmed. No entry for HHC was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Ketamine	Not confirmed. No entry for Ketamine was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Khat	Not confirmed. No entry for Khat was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Kratom	Not confirmed. No entry for Kratom was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Lorazepam	Not confirmed. No entry for Lorazepam was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
MDA	Not confirmed. No entry for MDA was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
MDMA	Not confirmed. No entry for MDMA was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
MDPV	Not confirmed. No entry for MDPV was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Memantine	Not confirmed. No entry for Memantine was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Mephedrone (4-MMC)	Not confirmed. No entry for Mephedrone was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Methylone	Not confirmed. No entry for Methylone was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Mitragynine	Not confirmed. No entry for Mitragynine was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Modafinil	Not confirmed. No entry for Modafinil was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
MXE	Not confirmed. No entry for MXE was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Nimetazepam	Not confirmed. No entry for Nimetazepam was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Nitrous Oxide	Not confirmed. No entry for Nitrous oxide was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the...
PCP	Not confirmed. No entry for PCP was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Phenibut	Not confirmed. No entry for Phenibut was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Pregabalin	Not confirmed. No entry for Pregabalin was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Quetiapine	Not confirmed. No entry for Quetiapine was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Salvia divinorum	Not confirmed. No entry for Salvia divinorum was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the...
Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)	Not confirmed. No entry for Scopolamine was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Tramadol	Not confirmed. No entry for Tramadol was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Xanax (Alprazolam)	Not confirmed. No entry for Alprazolam was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Xylazine	Not confirmed. No entry for Xylazine was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...
Zolpidem	Not confirmed. No entry for Zolpidem was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs...

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

Before you travel

Verify current rules with the destination country’s official drug authority and your own country’s embassy before traveling. Find the destination’s U.S. embassy & official country guidance →
Non-U.S. travelers: check your own government’s travel advisory and embassy.

If you’re detained or arrested abroad

Contact your own country’s embassy or consulate in the destination immediately, not the destination’s authorities. U.S. citizens: contact the nearest U.S. embassy/consulate and the U.S. State Department at +1-202-501-4444 (from abroad). If a U.S. citizen is arrested or detained abroad →

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