Legal status in Dominican Republic

1P-LSD

Legal status: Not listed. The parent lysergamide is listed as «Dietilamida del ácido lisérgico» at number 12 of acápite III of Categoría I under code 7315, and its acápite reaches the salts, the isomers and the salts of those isomers of what it lists. A propionyl group on the indole nitrogen is none of those three, so the parent's entry does not carry this compound. Article 7 is an open clause: it reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and acápite XXV of article 2 ends its list of the Grupos Alucinógenos with the words «y otras similares». An absence from the Categorías therefore does not close this row. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: This is a prodrug that converts to the listed parent, so what a laboratory reports may be the listed compound rather than this one. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «1P-LSD», «1p-lsd», «1-propionil-LSD» and «dietilamida del ácido lisérgico», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Article 8 lets the health ministry add a substance to a Categoría and publish the year's changes each January, and no such publication was reachable, so an administrative addition after 1990 cannot be ruled out from here. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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2-FDCK

Legal status: Not listed. This is ketamine with the chlorine replaced by fluorine, and ketamine itself has no entry, so there is no listed parent for a halogen substitution to be read onto. Article 7 is an open clause: it reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and acápite XXV of article 2 ends its list of the Grupos Alucinógenos with the words «y otras similares». An absence from the Categorías therefore does not close this row. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: A halogen exchange on an unlisted parent leaves the row exactly where the parent is. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «2-FDCK», «2-fdck», «fluorodesclorocetamina» and «2-fluorodeschloroketamine», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Chlorine and fluorine are different halogens, so even a listed chlorinated parent would not carry this compound as a salt or an isomer. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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25I-NBOMe

Legal status: Not listed. The N-benzyl phenethylamines have no entry. This compound is an N-methoxybenzyl derivative of a phenethylamine that is itself unlisted, so there is no listed parent for it to be a salt or isomer of. Article 7 is an open clause: it reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and acápite XXV of article 2 ends its list of the Grupos Alucinógenos with the words «y otras similares». An absence from the Categorías therefore does not close this row. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Because it is active at microgram doses and is commonly sold on blotter as LSD, what a traveller believes they hold and what analysis reports may not be the same substance. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «25I-NBOMe», «25i-nbome» and «2-(4-yodo-2,5-dimetoxifenil)-N-(2-metoxibencil)etanamina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. The compound was first described in 2003, fifteen years after the Categorías were enacted and thirteen after the last statutory amendment to them. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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2C-B

Legal status: Not listed. The entry that looks closest is «4-bromo-2.5 -dimetoxianfetami.na» at number 1 of acápite III of Categoría I under code 7391, printed with the stray full stops the instrument itself carries. That entry is DOB, an amphetamine with an alpha methyl group. 2C-B is the corresponding phenethylamine, which has no alpha methyl group, and it is neither a salt nor an isomer of DOB. The Ministerio de Salud Pública copy prints the same entry as «4-bromo-2,5-dimetoxi-anfetamina», which is the same amphetamine again. Article 7 is an open clause: it reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and acápite XXV of article 2 ends its list of the Grupos Alucinógenos with the words «y otras similares». An absence from the Categorías therefore does not close this row. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: A substring search on the bromine and the two methoxy groups matches the amphetamine entry and would place this row wrongly, so the entry was read rather than matched. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «2C-B», «2c-b», «4-bromo-2,5-dimetoxifenetilamina» and «nexus», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. No phenethylamine of the 2C series is named anywhere in the Categorías. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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2C-E

Legal status: Not listed. No entry in the hallucinogen acápite of Categoría I is a 2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine at all. The four dimethoxy entries there, at numbers 1, 2 and 5, are amphetamines carrying an alpha methyl group, and the compound in this row does not. Article 7 is an open clause: it reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and acápite XXV of article 2 ends its list of the Grupos Alucinógenos with the words «y otras similares». An absence from the Categorías therefore does not close this row. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The row differs from the listed amphetamines by one methyl group, which is a difference the salts and isomers wording of the acápite does not bridge. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «2C-E», «2c-e» and «4-etil-2,5-dimetoxifenetilamina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. The 4-ethyl substituent has no counterpart among the listed 4-substituted amphetamines, which carry bromine, methoxy and methyl. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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2C-I

Legal status: Not listed. The iodine analogue has no entry. The only halogenated dimethoxy compound in the hallucinogen acápite is the bromine amphetamine at number 1 under code 7391, and an iodine phenethylamine is neither its salt nor its isomer. Article 7 is an open clause: it reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and acápite XXV of article 2 ends its list of the Grupos Alucinógenos with the words «y otras similares». An absence from the Categorías therefore does not close this row. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Substituting iodine for bromine and removing the alpha methyl group are two changes from the listed entry, not one. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «2C-I», «2c-i» and «4-yodo-2,5-dimetoxifenetilamina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. No halogen other than bromine appears on any listed phenethylamine or amphetamine. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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2C-T-7

Legal status: Not listed. The sulphur bearing 2C compounds have no entry. The one sulphur containing entry in the hallucinogen acápite is «Análogo tiofeno de la fenciclidina» at number 24 under code 7470, which is a phencyclidine analogue and an unrelated structure. Article 7 is an open clause: it reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and acápite XXV of article 2 ends its list of the Grupos Alucinógenos with the words «y otras similares». An absence from the Categorías therefore does not close this row. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The propylthio group at the 4 position has no counterpart anywhere in the listed substances. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «2C-T-7», «2c-t-7» and «2,5-dimetoxi-4-propiltiofenetilamina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Ley 50-88 prints no analogue clause of the kind that would carry a listed structure onto an unlisted substituent. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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3-MMC

Legal status: Not listed. No cathinone of any kind is named in the Categorías. Cathinone itself, methcathinone and the substituted cathinones are all absent, so there is no listed parent in this chemical family for a substituted member to be read onto. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The absence is of the whole family and not of this member, which is the more reliable form of the finding. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «3-MMC», «3-mmc», «3-metilmetcatinona», «catinona» and «metcatinona», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. The nearest listed structures are the amphetamines of acápite II of Categoría II, and a cathinone is a beta-keto amphetamine, which is neither a salt nor an isomer of an amphetamine. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: Not listed. Psilocin is listed as «Psilocina» at number 20 of acápite III of Categoría I under code 7438 and psilocybin at number 19 under code 7437. This compound is the acetate ester of psilocin. The acápite reaches the salts, the isomers and the salts of those isomers of what it lists, and an ester is none of those three, so the psilocin entry does not carry it. Acápite I of Categoría I does reach esters and ethers, but only of the opiates it lists. Article 7 is an open clause: it reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and acápite XXV of article 2 ends its list of the Grupos Alucinógenos with the words «y otras similares». An absence from the Categorías therefore does not close this row. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The law draws its salts and isomers wording differently in different acápites, and this row falls in the gap between the two formulations. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «4-AcO-DMT», «4-aco-dmt», «O-acetilpsilocina» and «psilacetina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. The compound deacetylates to the listed psilocin, so a laboratory may report the listed substance. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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4-HO-MET

Legal status: Not listed. The listed tryptamines are «Dimetiltriptamina» at number 10 under code 7435, «Dietiltriptamina» at number 9 under code 7434, «Psilocibina» at 19 and «Psilocina» at 20. This compound carries one methyl and one ethyl group on the side chain nitrogen and a hydroxyl at the 4 position, which makes it a different substance from each of them rather than a salt or an isomer of any. Article 7 is an open clause: it reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and acápite XXV of article 2 ends its list of the Grupos Alucinógenos with the words «y otras similares». An absence from the Categorías therefore does not close this row. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: It sits structurally between two listed compounds without being either of them. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «4-HO-MET», «4-ho-met», «metilcibina» and «4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Its unsubstituted relative psilocin is listed, which shows the law names 4-hydroxytryptamines individually rather than as a group. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: Not listed. DMT itself is listed as «Dimetiltriptamina» at number 10 of acápite III of Categoría I under code 7435. This compound is DMT with a methoxy group at the 5 position of the indole ring, which makes it a different substance and not a salt or an isomer of the listed one. Bufotenine, the 5-hydroxy relative, is listed separately at number 8 under code 7433, which shows the law lists ring substituted tryptamines one by one. Article 7 is an open clause: it reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and acápite XXV of article 2 ends its list of the Grupos Alucinógenos with the words «y otras similares». An absence from the Categorías therefore does not close this row. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The listing of bufotenine beside DMT is the strongest evidence that the absence of this compound is a gap in a list of individual names rather than an implied exclusion. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «5-MeO-DMT», «5-meo-dmt» and «5-metoxi-N,N-dimetiltriptamina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. The toad and plant sources that carry it have no entries of their own. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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6-APB

Legal status: Not listed. No benzofuran compound of any kind is named in the Categorías. The benzodioxole ring of the listed «3,4, metilenodioxi-anfetamina» at number 6 of acápite III of Categoría I is a different ring system carrying two oxygens, and a benzofuran is not a salt or an isomer of it. The compound it is modelled on is listed in the hallucinogen acápite, and article 7 reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity while acápite XXV of article 2 ends «y otras similares», so the row is not closed by the list. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The ring difference is the whole of the distinction, and the law's salts and isomers wording does not cross a change of ring system. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «6-APB», «6-apb», «benzofurano» and «6-(2-aminopropil)benzofurano», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. The compound was first reported in the late 2000s, two decades after the Categorías were enacted. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)

Legal status: Not listed. The metabolite has no entry and neither does its parent alkaloid. Because the parent is itself unlisted, there is no entry for this compound to be read onto as a salt or an isomer. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where a parent is absent, the derivative cannot be reached through it, which is the difference between this row and a row whose parent is listed. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «7-hidroximitraginina», «7-hydroxymitragynine» and «mitraginina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. It is the more potent of the two kratom alkaloids and it is present in the leaf as well as being formed in the body. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Controlled. Adderall is a mixture of amphetamine salts, and every one of them is reached by the entry «Anfetamina, sus sales, isómeros ópticos y sales de éstos» at number 1 of acápite II of Categoría II of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 1100, whose words cover the salts and the optical isomers expressly.
Consequences if caught: The dextro isomer that makes up the larger part of the product is an optical isomer of amphetamine and so falls inside the entry rather than beside it. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: A medicine containing this substance is a sustancia controlada under article 2 acápite XLIII because it sits in acápite II of Categoría II. Articles 31 and 48 of Ley 50-88 confine such medicines to pharmacies and to a dispensed prescription, and article 28 forbids carrying controlled drugs without lawful authority. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Ley 50-88 prints no entry under a brand name and no attention deficit indication anywhere in its text, so a prescription from another country does not create a permission here. Article 49 lets a doctor holding a Class A certificate prescribe controlled drugs, which is a domestic professional authorisation and not a traveller exemption. Acápite XXVI of article 2 names «Dexedrina» in the Grupos Excitantes o Estimulantes. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría II acápite II item 1, code 1100 · articles 31, 48 and 49 · article 2 acápite XXVI · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Alcohol

Legal status: Controlled only as a precursor chemical. Ethanol is not in the Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88 and it is not named in the article 2 hallucinogen, stimulant, hypnotic or opiate groups. It is named in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento, as that chapter was replaced in full by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, in the entry «Alcohol etílico» under tariff headings 2207.10.00, 2207.20.00 and 2208.90.10, and article 1 of the replaced chapter makes the substances in that table sustancias controladas subject to the provisions of Ley 50-88 and the Reglamento. That listing bears on importation, commercialisation, denaturing and record keeping by licensed businesses. It is not a control on drinking.
Consequences if caught: Alcoholic drinks remain lawful to buy and to consume, and the drug offence route is not the route that governs them. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. Where undenatured ethanol is required for pharmaceutical purposes, párrafo V of article 3 of the replaced chapter requires prior authorisation from the Ministerio de Salud Pública y Asistencia Social naming the type and quantity of medicines it is for. Carry any prescription medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Párrafo IV of article 3 of the replaced Capítulo V allows undenatured ethanol to be imported, commercialised or exported by businesses holding a liquor licence from the Dirección General de Impuestos Internos, which is what keeps the beverage trade outside the denaturing requirement. Where ethanol is handled for purposes other than producing alcoholic drinks it must be denatured with 10 grams of denatonium benzoate per 1,000 kilograms. The whole of Decreto 275-21 was read to its final article and it contains no transitory article and no deferred commencement. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · Capítulo V of the Reglamento of Ley 50-88 as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, tariff headings 2207.10.00, 2207.20.00 and 2208.90.10 · article 3 párrafos IV and V of that chapter · not in the Categorías of article 8 · not in the article 2 group definitions · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Amanita muscaria

Legal status: Not listed. Neither the mushroom nor either of its active isoxazoles is named in the Categorías. The law does reach one fungal hallucinogen, through the alkaloids «Psilocibina» at number 19 and «Psilocina» at number 20 of acápite III of Categoría I, and muscimol and ibotenic acid are neither of those and are not salts or isomers of them. Article 7 reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and acápite XXV of article 2 ends its list of the Grupos Alucinógenos with «y otras similares», so the absence of these two isoxazoles from the list does not close the row. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The instrument reaches a different mushroom by naming its alkaloids, which shows the route it would have used had it meant to reach this one. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «Amanita muscaria», «muscimol», «ácido iboténico» and «agárico de mosca», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Muscimol acts at the GABA-A receptor rather than at a serotonin receptor, so it is unlike the listed hallucinogens pharmacologically as well as structurally. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Controlled. Amphetamine is the entry «Anfetamina, sus sales, isómeros ópticos y sales de éstos» at number 1 of acápite II of Categoría II of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 1100, and the entry reaches the optical isomers on its own words.
Consequences if caught: Acápite IV of the same Categoría separately controls the immediate precursors of amphetamine, so the law reaches the finished substance and the route to it by two different lines. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: A medicine containing this substance is a sustancia controlada under article 2 acápite XLIII because it sits in acápite II of Categoría II. Articles 31 and 48 of Ley 50-88 confine such medicines to pharmacies and to a dispensed prescription, and article 28 forbids carrying controlled drugs without lawful authority. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Acápite XXVI of article 2 names «Anfetaminas, Bencedrina, Dexedrina» in the Grupos Excitantes o Estimulantes. Two further amphetamines sit in Categoría I acápite III as hallucinogens, «Fenetilina» under code 1503 and «N-etilanfetamina» under code 1475, so the law splits this chemical family across two Categorías by effect rather than by structure. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría II acápite II item 1, code 1100 · precursors at Categoría II acápite IV · article 2 acápite XXVI · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: Not listed. No alkyl nitrite of any kind is named in the Categorías. Ley 50-88 does reach some industrial chemicals, but through the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento, and that table as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 in 2021 contains no nitrite either. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Two separate lists were read for this row, the statutory Categorías and the replaced precursor table, and the substance is in neither. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Amyl nitrite has a licensed medical use as an antidote in cyanide poisoning. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88, its position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01. Carry any prescribed supply in its original packaging with the prescription and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «nitrito de amilo», «amyl nitrite», «nitrito de isoamilo» and «nitritos de alquilo», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. The product row for poppers is recorded separately in this corpus and reaches the same finding on a different basis, because it is a label rather than a single chemical. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Controlled through its active alkaloid. Ayahuasca is a brew, and neither Banisteriopsis caapi nor Psychotria viridis nor any preparation of them carries an entry in the Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88. The alkaloid the brew is taken for does: DMT is the entry «Dimetiltriptamina» at number 10 of acápite III of Categoría I under identification code 7435, and that acápite reaches «los materiales, compuestos, mezclas o preparaciones que contengan una cantidad cualquiera» of the substances it lists. A brew containing DMT is such a preparation.
Consequences if caught: Because the placement runs through the hallucinogen acápite, article 7 governs and no quantity of the brew is treated as simple possession. Article 7 is the harshest rule in the law and it carries no quantity at all: «Cuando se trate de LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena, lo mismo que el opio y sus derivados, en la cantidad que fuera, se clasificará a la persona o las personas procesadas como traficantes.» The effect is that the article 75 role scale starts at its trafficker band for this row rather than at simple possession, so the prison band is five to twenty years. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fine for a trafficker is not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000, and for a patrocinador not less than RD$1,000,000. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched were «ayahuasca», «yagé», «Banisteriopsis» and «Psychotria». None appears anywhere in the instrument. Ley 50-88 prints no religious, ceremonial or traditional use exception of any kind. The harmala alkaloids that make the brew orally active, harmine and harmaline, have no entries of their own either, so the placement rests on the DMT content alone. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · no entry for the plants or the brew in the Categorías of article 8 · the constituent route is the DMT entry at Categoría I acápite III item 10, code 7435, read with the any-quantity words that open that acápite · article 7 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Barbiturates

Legal status: Controlled. The barbiturates are reached by a printed class rule rather than only by individual names: number 10 of acápite II of Categoría III of article 8 of Ley 50-88 is «Cualquier sustancia que contenga derivados del ácido barbitúrico y sus sales» under identification code 2100.
Consequences if caught: Because the rule is written as any substance containing derivatives of barbituric acid, a barbiturate that carries no entry of its own is still inside the law. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: A medicine containing this substance is a sustancia controlada under article 2 acápite XLIII because it sits in the barbituric acid class rule at acápite II of Categoría III, with named members in Categorías II and IV. Articles 31 and 48 of Ley 50-88 confine such medicines to pharmacies and to a dispensed prescription, and article 28 forbids carrying controlled drugs without lawful authority. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Named members sit above and below that rule. Amobarbital, pentobarbital and secobarbital are numbers 1, 2 and 3 of acápite III of Categoría II under codes 2125, 2270 and 2315. Barbital, methohexital, methylphenobarbital and phenobarbital are numbers 2, 16, 17 and 21 of acápite I of Categoría IV under codes 2145, 2264, 2250 and 2285. Butalbital has no entry of its own and is reached by the class rule. Acápite XXVII of article 2 treats the barbiturates as a group in its own definitions. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · class rule at Categoría III acápite II item 10, code 2100 · named members at Categoría II acápite III items 1 to 3 and Categoría IV acápite I items 2, 16, 17 and 21 · article 2 acápite XXVII · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled in part. Twelve benzodiazepines carry entries in acápite I of Categoría IV of article 8 of Ley 50-88: alprazolam at number 1, chlordiazepoxide at 5, clonazepam at 6, clorazepate at 7, diazepam at 8, flurazepam at 11, halazepam at 12, lorazepam at 13, oxazepam at 18, prazepam at 22, temazepam at 23 and triazolam at 24. Ley 50-88 prints no benzodiazepine class rule anywhere, so that list is closed and a benzodiazepine it does not name is not reached by it.
Consequences if caught: Because the row is a class and not a substance, the offence position depends on which member is in the traveller's possession. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: A medicine containing this substance is a sustancia controlada under article 2 acápite XLIII because it sits in acápite I of Categoría IV, for the twelve members that are listed. Articles 31 and 48 of Ley 50-88 confine such medicines to pharmacies and to a dispensed prescription, and article 28 forbids carrying controlled drugs without lawful authority. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Members with no entry in the version read include nimetazepam, etizolam, which is a thienotriazolodiazepine rather than a benzodiazepine, bromazepam, clobazam, midazolam and nitrazepam. The dossier for this country recorded a printed entry that included nimetazepam and etizolam; neither name appears in either government copy read here. Contrast the treatment of the barbiturates, where number 10 of acápite II of Categoría III is a class rule and does the work a benzodiazepine class rule would do. The governing words of the acápite that carries the twelve are «Cualquier material, compuesto, mezcla o preparación que contenga cualquier cantidad de las siguientes sustancias, incluyendo sus sales, isómeros y sus sales.», so its reach is over the substances it then lists and not over the family. As at 21 september 2026. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · twelve entries at Categoría IV acápite I items 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 18, 22, 23 and 24 · no class rule for this family in the Categorías of article 8 · the barbiturate class rule at Categoría III acápite II item 10 is the contrast · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Not listed. Buprenorphine has no entry in either government copy, in any Categoría. Thebaine, the alkaloid it is made from, is listed as «Tabaina» at number 16 of acápite I of Categoría II under code 9333, and two of its close relatives are listed in acápite II of Categoría I, «Acetorfina» under code 9319 and «Ciprenorfina» under 9054, with «Etorfma (excepto la sal de hidrocloruro)» under 9056. Being made from a listed alkaloid is not a placement under this law, and none of those three entries is this substance. Article 7 reaches «el opio y sus derivados» at any quantity and acápite I of Categoría II opens to «Cualquier sal, compuesto, derivado o preparación de opio», and this substance is made from an opium alkaloid, so an open route plainly exists and the absence from the list does not close the row. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The dossier for this country recorded a printed entry «BUPRENORFINA». No such entry is printed in either government copy read here. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Buprenorphine is prescribed for opioid dependence and for pain. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88, its prescription position is governed by the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 rather than by the drug law. Carry any prescribed supply in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «buprenorfina», «buprenorphine» and «tebaína», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Article 8 opens Categoría II acápite I to «Cualquier sal, compuesto, derivado o preparación de opio», and buprenorphine is a semisynthetic made from a thebaine that is itself an opium alkaloid, so that opening phrase is the one place a reader might try to place this row. The acápite then names the substances it includes, and this is not among them. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Caffeine

Legal status: Not listed. Caffeine has no entry. It is a methylxanthine, and no xanthine appears anywhere in the five Categorías. The stimulant acápites of Categorías II, III and IV list amphetamines, phenylalkylamines and anorectics, and this is none of those. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Acápite XXVI of article 2 defines the Grupos Excitantes o Estimulantes as coca and its derivatives, the amphetamines, benzedrine and dexedrine «y otras similares», and a xanthine in coffee and tea is not similar to those in the sense that definition is using. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «cafeína», «caffeine», «teína» and «metilxantina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Caffeine is present in coffee, tea, cola drinks, some analgesics and some energy products, none of which Ley 50-88 addresses. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Controlled. Cannabis is the entry «Marihuana» at number 13 of acápite III of Categoría I of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 7360, and acápite XXIX of article 2 defines that word to mean every part of the Cannabis Sativa L. plant, its seeds, its resin and every compound, product, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of the plant, its seeds or its resin, while excluding the mature stalks, the fibre from them and the oil or paste made from the seeds.
Consequences if caught: Cannabis is one of only two substances for which Ley 50-88 prints a quantity scale at all, and it is the only one whose scale is printed twice, once for herbal material and once for hashish. Article 6 sets two quantity scales and article 75 sets the prison band that follows from them. For herbal material, 20 grams or less is simple possession and the person is classified as an aficionado, more than 20 grams and less than one pound makes them a distributor, and more than one pound makes them a trafficker. For hashish the same three roles turn on 5 grams and a quarter of a pound. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Simple possession is a lesser classification and it is still a punishable offence, not a decriminalised one. Paragraph (c) of article 6, added by article 2 of Ley 17-95, removes the aficionado classification whatever the quantity where the drug is carried for distribution or sale. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: There is no medical cannabis programme, so no prescription route exists for cannabis in the Dominican Republic. CBD is treated the same as THC and United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.
Documentation: Article 9(f) separately names «Todas las semillas y plantas de la familia de las Cannabináceas» among the drugs the law calls the most dangerous, and article 64 makes cultivation without authority, or more than one pound of seed, a trafficking offence in itself carrying five to twenty years. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría I acápite III item 13, code 7360 · article 2 acápite XXIX · article 6 · article 9(f) · article 64 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Not listed. The parent cathinone alkaloid has no entry, and neither does its plant source. No cathinone appears anywhere in the five Categorías. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: This is the parent of the substituted cathinone rows, and its absence is what leaves each of them without a listed ancestor. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «catinona», «cathinone», «catina», «norefedrina» and «Catha edulis», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Cathine, its reduced relative, is equally absent, so neither of the two khat alkaloids is reached. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Clonazepam is the entry «Clonazepam» at number 6 of acápite I of Categoría IV of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 2737.
Consequences if caught: Categoría IV carries the accepted medical use finding in article 8, so the law provides a prescription route for this substance rather than prohibiting it outright. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: A medicine containing this substance is a sustancia controlada under article 2 acápite XLIII because it sits in acápite I of Categoría IV. Articles 31 and 48 of Ley 50-88 confine such medicines to pharmacies and to a dispensed prescription, and article 28 forbids carrying controlled drugs without lawful authority. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The nitro group that distinguishes it does not put it anywhere else in the law, and the structurally close nitrobenzodiazepine nimetazepam has no entry at all in the version read. Article 31 confines these medicines to pharmacies and article 48 requires the prescription to be held by the dispenser. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría IV acápite I item 6, code 2737 · articles 31 and 48 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled. Cocaine is the entry «Cocaína» at number 6 of acápite II of Categoría II of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 9041, with «Hojas de coca» at number 5 under code 9040 and «Ecgonina» at number 7 under code 9180.
Consequences if caught: Cocaine is the substance for which article 5, as substituted by article 1 of Ley 17-95, prints the Dominican Republic's only gram scale for a single chemical. Article 5, as substituted by article 1 of Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995, sets the scale for cocaine and article 75 sets the prison band that follows from it. One gram or less is simple possession and the person is classified as an aficionado, more than one gram and less than five grams makes them a distributor, and more than five grams makes them a trafficker. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Simple possession is a lesser classification and it is still a punishable offence, not a decriminalised one. Article 6 prints the only other quantity scale in the law, for marihuana and for hashish, and it has nothing to say about this row. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Article 9(d) separately names «La cocaína, sus derivados o sustitutos sintéticos o cualquier compuesto en el cual entre como base» among the drugs the law calls the most dangerous. Article 5(b) removes the simple possession classification whatever the quantity where the drug is carried for distribution or sale. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entries at Categoría II acápite II items 5, 6 and 7, codes 9040, 9041 and 9180 · article 5 as substituted by article 1 of Ley 17-95 · article 9(d) · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Controlled. Codeine is the entry «Codeína» at number 7 of acápite I of Categoría II of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 9050, and it is the substance the law places in three different Categorías by strength.
Consequences if caught: Codeine is methylmorphine and therefore a derivative of opium, the limb article 7 names, so on the face of the statute the trafficker classification attaches to the pure substance at any quantity. Article 7 is the harshest rule in the law and it carries no quantity at all: «Cuando se trate de LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena, lo mismo que el opio y sus derivados, en la cantidad que fuera, se clasificará a la persona o las personas procesadas como traficantes.» The effect is that the article 75 role scale starts at its trafficker band for this row rather than at simple possession, so the prison band is five to twenty years. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fine for a trafficker is not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000, and for a patrocinador not less than RD$1,000,000. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: A medicine containing this substance is a sustancia controlada under article 2 acápite XLIII because it sits in acápite I of Categoría II, with dilute preparations in Categorías III and V. Articles 31 and 48 of Ley 50-88 confine such medicines to pharmacies and to a dispensed prescription, and article 28 forbids carrying controlled drugs without lawful authority. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Numbers 1 and 2 of acápite III of Categoría III place a preparation carrying not more than 1.8 grams of codeine per 100 millilitres, or not more than 90 milligrams per single dose with the stated companions, under codes 9803 and 9804. Number 1 of acápite I of Categoría V places a preparation carrying not more than 200 milligrams per 100 millilitres or per 100 grams lower still. A cough preparation and a pure powder are therefore not in the same place in this law. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría II acápite I item 7, code 9050 · Categoría III acápite III items 1 and 2, codes 9803 and 9804 · Categoría V acápite I item 1 · article 7 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled. Crack is cocaine in its freebase form, and it is reached through the entry «Cocaína» at number 6 of acápite II of Categoría II of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 9041, read with article 9(d), which reaches «La cocaína, sus derivados o sustitutos sintéticos o cualquier compuesto en el cual entre como base».
Consequences if caught: Because the controlled thing is cocaine, the article 5 gram scale is the scale that applies, and it is written against the weight of the drug rather than against its form. Article 5, as substituted by article 1 of Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995, sets the scale for cocaine and article 75 sets the prison band that follows from it. One gram or less is simple possession and the person is classified as an aficionado, more than one gram and less than five grams makes them a distributor, and more than five grams makes them a trafficker. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Simple possession is a lesser classification and it is still a punishable offence, not a decriminalised one. Article 6 prints the only other quantity scale in the law, for marihuana and for hashish, and it has nothing to say about this row. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Ley 50-88 prints no entry and no separate scale for the freebase or smokable form, and it prints no purity rule, so the same gram figures decide a rock and a powder. The words «en el cual entre como base» in article 9(d) are what close the form question on the face of the statute. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría II acápite II item 6, code 9041 · article 5 as substituted by article 1 of Ley 17-95 · article 9(d) · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Controlled. Delta-8-THC is reached by the plural entry «Tetrahidrocanabinoles» at number 21 of acápite III of Categoría I of article 8 of Ley 50-88, under identification code 7370, which names the tetrahydrocannabinols as a group rather than naming one isomer.
Consequences if caught: The entry sits in the hallucinogen acápite, and acápite XXV of article 2 places «el THC (Tetrahidrocannabinol)» inside the Grupos Alucinógenos, so article 7 rather than the article 6 quantity scale is the rule that reads most naturally onto an isolated tetrahydrocannabinol. Article 7 is the harshest rule in the law and it carries no quantity at all: «Cuando se trate de LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena, lo mismo que el opio y sus derivados, en la cantidad que fuera, se clasificará a la persona o las personas procesadas como traficantes.» The effect is that the article 75 role scale starts at its trafficker band for this row rather than at simple possession, so the prison band is five to twenty years. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fine for a trafficker is not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000, and for a patrocinador not less than RD$1,000,000. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The delta-8 isomer is a tetrahydrocannabinol, so the plural entry reaches it on its own terms without needing the cannabis definition. Where the material is plant derived it is reached twice, because acápite XXIX of article 2 also makes every derivative of the plant and its resin «marihuana». There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría I acápite III item 21, code 7370 · article 2 acápites XXV and XXIX · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Diazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Diazepam is the entry «Diazepam» at number 8 of acápite I of Categoría IV of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 2765.
Consequences if caught: Three of its metabolites are separately listed in the same acápite, oxazepam at number 18, temazepam at number 23 and clorazepate at number 7, so the law reaches the parent and what the body makes of it. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: A medicine containing this substance is a sustancia controlada under article 2 acápite XLIII because it sits in acápite I of Categoría IV. Articles 31 and 48 of Ley 50-88 confine such medicines to pharmacies and to a dispensed prescription, and article 28 forbids carrying controlled drugs without lawful authority. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The Ministerio de Salud Pública copy prints this entry as «Diazepan» with a final n and the Consejo Nacional de Drogas copy prints «Diazepam»; the two government copies were compared entry by entry and every difference between them is of this typographic kind, with no difference in which substances are listed. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría IV acápite I item 8, code 2765 · articles 31 and 48 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: Controlled. DMT is the entry «Dimetiltriptamina» at number 10 of acápite III of Categoría I of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 7435, and its diethyl homologue is the preceding entry «Dietiltriptamina» at number 9 under code 7434.
Consequences if caught: DMT sits in the hallucinogen acápite, so article 7 classifies any quantity as trafficking. Article 7 is the harshest rule in the law and it carries no quantity at all: «Cuando se trate de LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena, lo mismo que el opio y sus derivados, en la cantidad que fuera, se clasificará a la persona o las personas procesadas como traficantes.» The effect is that the article 75 role scale starts at its trafficker band for this row rather than at simple possession, so the prison band is five to twenty years. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fine for a trafficker is not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000, and for a patrocinador not less than RD$1,000,000. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Acápite XXV of article 2 names «DMT (Dimetiltriptamina), DET (Dietiltriptamina)» in the Grupos Alucinógenos. The 5-methoxy and 4-acetoxy analogues have no entries of their own, so this placement covers the parent tryptamine and not the wider family. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entries at Categoría I acápite III items 9 and 10, codes 7434 and 7435 · article 2 acápite XXV · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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DOM

Legal status: Controlled. DOM is the entry «4-metil,-2, 5, dimetoxi-anfetamina» at number 5 of acápite III of Categoría I of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 7395, printed with the comma placement the instrument itself uses.
Consequences if caught: DOM sits in the hallucinogen acápite, so article 7 reaches any quantity of it. Article 7 is the harshest rule in the law and it carries no quantity at all: «Cuando se trate de LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena, lo mismo que el opio y sus derivados, en la cantidad que fuera, se clasificará a la persona o las personas procesadas como traficantes.» The effect is that the article 75 role scale starts at its trafficker band for this row rather than at simple possession, so the prison band is five to twenty years. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fine for a trafficker is not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000, and for a patrocinador not less than RD$1,000,000. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Acápite XXV of article 2 names the same compound by its street initialism in the Grupos Alucinógenos, as «STP (Dimetoximetanfetamina)». The neighbouring entry at number 1, «4-bromo-2.5 -dimetoxianfetami.na» under code 7391, is the bromine analogue DOB and is a different substance again. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría I acápite III item 5, code 7395 · article 2 acápite XXV · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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DXM

Legal status: Not listed. Dextromethorphan has no entry, and the instrument goes further than silence: acápite I of Categoría II opens by excluding «la Apomorfina, el Dextrorfan, la Nalbufina y la Naltrexona y sus sales respectivas», which names this substance's active metabolite as expressly outside the Categoría. The two morphinans that are listed, «Levometorfan» at number 26 under code 9210 and «Racemetorfan» at number 38 under code 9732, are the levo isomer and the racemate, and neither is the dextro isomer alone. Article 7 reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and at high dose this substance is dissociative, so the express exclusion of its metabolite from Categoría II settles the schedule question and not the article 7 one. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: This is the only row in this batch where the instrument does not merely omit the substance but expressly excludes its metabolite by name. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Dextromethorphan is an over the counter cough suppressant in many countries. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88 and its metabolite is expressly excluded, its retail position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01. Carry any preparation in its original packaging, with the prescription and the dispensing label where it was dispensed on one, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «dextrometorfano», «dextromethorphan», «DXM» and «dextrorfano», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. The listing of the racemate without the dextro isomer is deliberate drafting and not an omission, because the levo isomer is the one with opioid activity. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Controlled as a precursor. Ephedrine is not in the Categorías of article 8, and it is instead named in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento of Ley 50-88, as that chapter was replaced in full by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, in the entry «Efedrina, sus sales isómeras» under tariff heading 2939.41.00, with «Seudo efedrina, sus sales» under 2939.42.00.
Consequences if caught: The opening article of the replaced chapter states the consequence of that listing: the substances in the table are considered sustancias controladas and are therefore subject to all the legal provisions of Ley 50-88 and of the Reglamento. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine are common in cold and decongestant preparations. Because the control is framed against the precursor rather than against a finished medicine, carry any such preparation in its original packaging with the prescription or the pharmacy label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The whole of Decreto 275-21 was read, including its final articles, and it contains no transitory article and no deferred commencement for any substance in the table it replaces. Its stated object in article 1 is to add controls on the importation and commercialisation of the precursor alcohols, and the replacement of Capítulo V is how it does that. The original Capítulo V of Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 already carried ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, so this is not a 2021 addition. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · Capítulo V of the Reglamento of Ley 50-88 as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, tariff headings 2939.41.00 and 2939.42.00 · Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996, original Capítulo V · not in the Categorías of article 8 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Etizolam

Legal status: Not listed. Etizolam has no entry. It is a thienotriazolodiazepine, in which a thiophene ring replaces the benzene ring of a benzodiazepine, so it is not one of the twelve benzodiazepines listed in acápite I of Categoría IV and is not a salt or an isomer of any of them. Ley 50-88 prints no benzodiazepine class rule. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The dossier for this country recorded this substance inside a quoted entry. That name is not printed in either government copy read here. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Etizolam is prescribed in some countries and is not licensed in others. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88, its position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01. Carry any prescribed supply in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «etizolam», «etizolán» and «tienotriazolodiazepina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Triazolam, which is a triazolobenzodiazepine and the closest listed relative, is at number 24 of the same acápite under code 2887, printed there as «Triasolam». There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled. Fentanyl is the entry «Fentanil» at number 24 of acápite I of Categoría II of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 9801, printed in that shortened form, and sufentanil is separately listed at number 44 of acápite I of Categoría I under code 9740.
Consequences if caught: Fentanyl is a synthetic anilidopiperidine and not a derivative of opium, so article 7 does not reach it by its opium limb and the entry is what places this row. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: A medicine containing this substance is a sustancia controlada under article 2 acápite XLIII because it sits in acápite I of Categoría II. Articles 31 and 48 of Ley 50-88 confine such medicines to pharmacies and to a dispensed prescription, and article 28 forbids carrying controlled drugs without lawful authority. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The two placements are in different Categorías, which matters because Categoría I is the class the law reserves for substances with no accepted medical use. No fentanyl analogue beyond sufentanil is named, so carfentanil, acetylfentanyl and the other analogues have no entry of their own in the version read. Ley 50-88 prints no microgram or milligram threshold for any opioid. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría II acápite I item 24, code 9801 · sufentanil at Categoría I acápite I item 44, code 9740 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Gabapentin

Legal status: Not listed. Gabapentin has no entry, and neither does any other gabapentinoid. The absence is the same one recorded for pregabalin in this corpus and it rests on the same reading of the same list. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: No calcium channel modulator of this class appears in any Categoría. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Gabapentin is a prescription medicine for epilepsy and neuropathic pain. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88, its prescription position is governed by the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 rather than by the drug law. Carry any prescribed supply in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «gabapentina», «gabapentin» and «ácido gamma-aminobutírico», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Gabapentin reached the market in 1993, five years after the Categorías were enacted and three after the last statutory amendment to them. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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GBL

Legal status: Not listed. GBL has no entry. Neither it nor GHB, the substance it converts to in the body, appears anywhere in the five Categorías, and it is absent from the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento even in the form that table took when it was replaced in 2021. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: It is an industrial solvent as well as a precursor, and the 2021 replacement of the precursor chapter added four alcohols without adding this lactone. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «gamma-butirolactona», «GBL», «butirolactona» and «4-butanolida», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. That the 2021 replacement was the moment a solvent precursor could have been added, and was not, is a reading of the replaced table rather than an inference from the silence of the 1988 Categorías. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: Not listed. GHB has no entry in any Categoría. The depressant acápites of Categorías II, III and IV list barbiturates, chloral compounds, glutethimide, methyprylon, ethchlorvynol, meprobamate and the benzodiazepines, and this substance is none of them. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: It is also an endogenous compound and a licensed medicine for narcolepsy in some countries, and the law addresses neither fact. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «gamma-hidroxibutirato», «GHB», «oxibato de sodio» and «ácido gamma-hidroxibutírico», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Its precursor GBL is recorded separately in this corpus and is equally absent, including from the precursor table replaced in 2021. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Controlled. Heroin is the entry «Heroína» at number 11 of acápite II of Categoría I of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 9200, in the acápite that covers the derivatives of opium, and article 9(b) names «La heroína» among the drugs the law calls the most dangerous.
Consequences if caught: Heroin is diacetylmorphine and therefore a derivative of opium, which is the second limb article 7 names, so the trafficker classification attaches at any quantity. Article 7 is the harshest rule in the law and it carries no quantity at all: «Cuando se trate de LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena, lo mismo que el opio y sus derivados, en la cantidad que fuera, se clasificará a la persona o las personas procesadas como traficantes.» The effect is that the article 75 role scale starts at its trafficker band for this row rather than at simple possession, so the prison band is five to twenty years. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fine for a trafficker is not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000, and for a patrocinador not less than RD$1,000,000. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The acápite that carries it reaches the salts, isomers and salts of isomers of every entry in it, so the hydrochloride and the base are both covered by the same line. Ley 50-88 prints no gram scale for any opiate. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría I acápite II item 11, code 9200 · article 7 · article 9(b) · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Controlled. Hydrocodone is the entry «Hidrocodona» at number 10 of acápite I of Categoría II of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 9193.
Consequences if caught: Dilute hydrocodone preparations sit lower, so which Categoría a product falls in turns on its strength rather than on the name on the box. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: A medicine containing this substance is a sustancia controlada under article 2 acápite XLIII because it sits in acápite I of Categoría II, with dilute preparations in Categoría III. Articles 31 and 48 of Ley 50-88 confine such medicines to pharmacies and to a dispensed prescription, and article 28 forbids carrying controlled drugs without lawful authority. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Numbers 3 and 4 of acápite III of Categoría III place a preparation carrying not more than 300 milligrams of hidrocodeinona per 100 millilitres, or not more than 15 milligrams per single dose with the stated companions, under codes 9805 and 9806. The Consejo Nacional de Drogas text prints that word as «hidrocodeinona» and the Ministerio de Salud Pública text prints it as «dihidrocodeinona», which is a typographic difference between two government copies and not a difference in what is listed. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría II acápite I item 10, code 9193 · Categoría III acápite III items 3 and 4, codes 9805 and 9806 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Ketamine

Legal status: Not listed. Ketamine has no entry in the Categorías. The arylcyclohexylamine entries the law does carry are the three phencyclidine analogues at numbers 22, 23 and 24 of acápite III of Categoría I and the precursors at acápite IV of Categoría II, and ketamine is none of them. Article 7 reaches «cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and whether a dissociative anaesthetic is a sustancia alucinógena for that purpose is not something the text answers. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Ketamine is an anaesthetic in human and veterinary medicine, so a lawful supply chain exists for it that the drug law does not describe. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ketamine is a licensed anaesthetic. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88, its prescription position is governed by the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and by the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than by the drug law. Carry any prescribed supply in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «ketamina», «ketamine», «clorhidrato de ketamina» and «2-(2-clorofenil)-2-(metilamino)ciclohexanona», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. The dossier for this country recorded this row as unresolved, which agrees with the reading here on the schedule question while leaving the article 7 question open. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Khat

Legal status: Not listed. Neither the plant nor either of the two alkaloids it carries is named in the Categorías. Ley 50-88 does list plant material by name where it means to, at «Marihuana» under code 7360, «Peyote» under 7415 and «Hojas de coca» under 9040, so the absence of this leaf sits beside three express inclusions of others. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The law's willingness to name plants elsewhere is what makes this absence a reading of the list rather than an inference from silence. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «khat», «qat», «Catha edulis», «catinona» and «catina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Article 9(f) extends only to the Cannabináceas family and article 9(c) only to coca, so neither of the law's plant clauses reaches this row. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Kratom

Legal status: Not listed. Neither the tree nor either of its principal alkaloids is named in the Categorías. The alkaloids are indole compounds, and the indole entries the law does carry are the four tryptamines of acápite III of Categoría I, which are a different structural class. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The plant clauses of article 9 reach only the Cannabináceas and coca, so neither extends to this leaf. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «kratom», «Mitragyna speciosa», «mitraginina» and «7-hidroximitraginina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. The two alkaloid rows in this corpus are recorded separately and reach the same finding. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Lorazepam is the entry «Lorazepam» at number 13 of acápite I of Categoría IV of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 2885.
Consequences if caught: Its placement is in the same acápite and the same Categoría as the other listed benzodiazepines, so the offence route does not differ between them. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: A medicine containing this substance is a sustancia controlada under article 2 acápite XLIII because it sits in acápite I of Categoría IV. Articles 31 and 48 of Ley 50-88 confine such medicines to pharmacies and to a dispensed prescription, and article 28 forbids carrying controlled drugs without lawful authority. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Lorazepam is a 3-hydroxy benzodiazepine, as are the listed oxazepam and temazepam, so the three most commonly dispensed members of that subgroup all carry entries. Etizolam, which is a thienotriazolodiazepine rather than a benzodiazepine, carries none. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría IV acápite I item 13, code 2885 · articles 31 and 48 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: Controlled. LSA is lysergic acid amide, and it is the entry «Amina del ácido lisérgico» at number 4 of acápite II of Categoría III of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 7310, with «Acido lisérgico» itself at number 3 under code 7300.
Consequences if caught: Its placement is in Categoría III and not in the hallucinogen acápite of Categoría I where LSD sits, so the two lysergamides are not in the same class in this law. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The seeds that carry it, morning glory and Hawaiian baby woodrose, have no entry of their own, so the controlled thing is the alkaloid and not the plant material. The two ergot alkaloids ergonovine and ergotamine are separately controlled as precursors by the párrafo added to Categoría V by Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, which is a different regime again. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entries at Categoría III acápite II items 3 and 4, codes 7300 and 7310 · the precursor párrafo added to Categoría V by Ley 35-90 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: Controlled. LSD is the entry «Dietilamida del ácido lisérgico» at number 12 of acápite III of Categoría I of article 8 of Ley 50-88, the hallucinogen acápite, under identification code 7315, and article 9(e) separately names «El LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» among the drugs the law calls the most dangerous.
Consequences if caught: LSD is one of only two substances article 7 names by name, and the article sends any quantity of it straight to the trafficker classification. Article 7 is the harshest rule in the law and it carries no quantity at all: «Cuando se trate de LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena, lo mismo que el opio y sus derivados, en la cantidad que fuera, se clasificará a la persona o las personas procesadas como traficantes.» The effect is that the article 75 role scale starts at its trafficker band for this row rather than at simple possession, so the prison band is five to twenty years. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fine for a trafficker is not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000, and for a patrocinador not less than RD$1,000,000. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Acápite XXV of article 2 defines the Grupos Alucinógenos and opens that definition with «Dietilamida del Ácido Lisérgico (LSD-25)». The lysergic acid it is made from is separately controlled at number 3 of acápite II of Categoría III under code 7300. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría I acápite III item 12, code 7315 · article 9(e) · article 2 acápite XXV · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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MDA

Legal status: Controlled. MDA is the entry «3,4, metilenodioxi-anfetamina» at number 6 of acápite III of Categoría I of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 7400, printed with the spacing the instrument itself uses.
Consequences if caught: MDA sits in the hallucinogen acápite, so article 7 sends any quantity to the trafficker classification. Article 7 is the harshest rule in the law and it carries no quantity at all: «Cuando se trate de LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena, lo mismo que el opio y sus derivados, en la cantidad que fuera, se clasificará a la persona o las personas procesadas como traficantes.» The effect is that the article 75 role scale starts at its trafficker band for this row rather than at simple possession, so the prison band is five to twenty years. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fine for a trafficker is not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000, and for a patrocinador not less than RD$1,000,000. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Acápite XXV of article 2 carries the same compound in the Grupos Alucinógenos as «IVA (Metilenedioxianfetamina)», a printing of MDA rather than of any other initialism. The N-methyl homologue MDMA is not printed anywhere in the Categorías, so this entry reaches MDA and does not reach MDMA by its own terms. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría I acápite III item 6, code 7400 · article 2 acápite XXV · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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MDPV

Legal status: Not listed. Neither pyrovalerone nor any of its analogues is named in the Categorías. The pyrrolidine ring that defines this family appears in the instrument only in «Análogo pirrolidino de fenciclidina» at number 23 of acápite III of Categoría I under code 7458, which is a phencyclidine analogue and an unrelated structure. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: A shared pyrrolidine ring is not a shared placement, and the entry that carries one is in a different chemical family entirely. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «MDPV», «mdpv», «pirovalerona» and «3,4-metilendioxipirovalerona», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Reading the phencyclidine analogue entry as covering this row would be a substring match and not a placement. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Memantine

Legal status: Not listed. Memantine has no entry. It is an aminoadamantane acting at the NMDA receptor, and no adamantane and no NMDA antagonist appears anywhere in the five Categorías. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The only compounds in the instrument with any NMDA activity are the three phencyclidine analogues, and they are listed by their own names and structures rather than by pharmacology. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Memantine is a prescription medicine for Alzheimer's disease. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88, its prescription position is governed by the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 rather than by the drug law. Carry any prescribed supply in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «memantina», «memantine» and «adamantano», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Memantine was approved in Europe in 2002 and in the United States in 2003. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Not listed. No cathinone is named anywhere in the Categorías, so there is no listed member of this family and no class rule for it, in contrast with the barbiturates, which do have one at number 10 of acápite II of Categoría III. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The contrast with the barbiturate class rule shows the law knows how to write a family rule when it means to, and it did not write one here. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «mefedrona», «mephedrone», «4-MMC» and «4-metilmetcatinona», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Khat, the plant that carries the parent cathinone, is also absent. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Controlled. Mescaline is the entry «Mescalina» at number 14 of acápite III of Categoría I of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 7381.
Consequences if caught: Mescaline sits in the hallucinogen acápite, so article 7 classifies the person as a trafficker whatever the quantity. Article 7 is the harshest rule in the law and it carries no quantity at all: «Cuando se trate de LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena, lo mismo que el opio y sus derivados, en la cantidad que fuera, se clasificará a la persona o las personas procesadas como traficantes.» The effect is that the article 75 role scale starts at its trafficker band for this row rather than at simple possession, so the prison band is five to twenty years. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fine for a trafficker is not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000, and for a patrocinador not less than RD$1,000,000. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The cactus that carries it is separately listed two entries later as «Peyote» under code 7415, so the law reaches the alkaloid and one of its plant sources by two different entries. Acápite XXV of article 2 names «Mescalina» in the Grupos Alucinógenos. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría I acápite III item 14, code 7381 · article 2 acápite XXV · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Controlled. Methadone is the entry «Metadona» at number 29 of acápite I of Categoría II of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 9250, and its synthesis intermediate is listed beside it at number 30 under code 9254.
Consequences if caught: Methadone is a fully synthetic opioid rather than a derivative of opium, so it is the entry and not article 7's opium limb that places this row. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: A medicine containing this substance is a sustancia controlada under article 2 acápite XLIII because it sits in acápite I of Categoría II. Articles 31 and 48 of Ley 50-88 confine such medicines to pharmacies and to a dispensed prescription, and article 28 forbids carrying controlled drugs without lawful authority. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Ley 50-88 prints no maintenance or treatment exception, and no daily dose figure appears anywhere in its text. Article 31 confines medicines carrying substances from Categorías II, III and IV to pharmacies and to a prescription, which is the route a treatment supply travels by. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría II acápite I item 29, code 9250 · intermediate at item 30, code 9254 · article 31 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Controlled. Methamphetamine is the entry «Metanfetamina, sus sales, isómeros y sales de éstos» at number 2 of acápite II of Categoría II of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 1105.
Consequences if caught: A closing paragraph of acápite IV of the same Categoría adds that injectable liquids containing any quantity of methamphetamine, including its salts and isomers, are also understood to be included, so the law reaches the injectable form by a second line. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Acápite IV of the same Categoría controls the immediate precursors of methamphetamine, and Capítulo V of the Reglamento adds ephedrine and pseudoephedrine to the controlled precursor table. Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for this substance, so the role classification in article 4 is decided on the facts rather than by a printed gram figure. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría II acápite II item 2, code 1105 · the closing paragraph of Categoría II acápite IV · Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Controlled. Methaqualone is the entry «Metacualona» at number 2 of acápite IV of Categoría I of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 2565, with its chlorinated relative «Meclocualona» at number 1 under code 2572.
Consequences if caught: Acápite IV of Categoría I is the depressant acápite of the class the law reserves for substances with no accepted medical use, and those two entries are the whole of it. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The acápite reaches «los materiales, compuestos, mezclas o preparaciones que contengan cualquier cantidad» of either substance, including their salts, isomers and the salts of those isomers, so a tablet of any strength is within it. Because the placement is in Categoría I rather than Categoría II, no prescription route exists for it in this law. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entries at Categoría I acápite IV items 1 and 2, codes 2572 and 2565 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methylone

Legal status: Not listed. This compound is the beta-keto analogue of MDMA, and MDMA is itself unnamed in the Categorías. The listed «3,4, metilenodioxi-anfetamina» at number 6 of acápite III of Categoría I is MDA, which differs from this row by both a ketone and an N-methyl group. The compound it is modelled on sits in the hallucinogen acápite family, and article 7 reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity while acápite XXV of article 2 ends «y otras similares», so the row is not closed by the list. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Two structural changes separate this row from the nearest listed entry, so no salts or isomers reading reaches it. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «metilona», «methylone», «bk-MDMA» and «3,4-metilendioxi-N-metilcatinona», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Its unketonised relative MDMA is also absent, which is recorded in that row. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Controlled. Methylphenidate is the entry «Metilfenidato» at number 4 of acápite II of Categoría II of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 1724, in the central nervous system stimulant acápite.
Consequences if caught: It sits in Categoría II, the class the law reserves for substances with a high abuse potential that nonetheless have an accepted medical use, so a lawful prescription route exists for it inside the country. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: A medicine containing this substance is a sustancia controlada under article 2 acápite XLIII because it sits in acápite II of Categoría II. Articles 31 and 48 of Ley 50-88 confine such medicines to pharmacies and to a dispensed prescription, and article 28 forbids carrying controlled drugs without lawful authority. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Article 31 confines medicines carrying substances from Categorías II, III and IV to pharmacies or to authorised establishments, and article 48 requires the dispenser to hold the prescription. Ley 50-88 prints no entry for lisdexamfetamine, which is a different molecule, and prints no milligram threshold for this one. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría II acápite II item 4, code 1724 · articles 31 and 48 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Mitragynine

Legal status: Not listed. The alkaloid has no entry. It is a corynanthe type indole alkaloid, and the indole entries in the instrument are the four tryptamines of acápite III of Categoría I, none of which it is a salt or an isomer of. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The structural class is shared only at the level of the indole ring, which is not a basis for placement under this law. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «mitraginina», «mitragynine» and «Mitragyna speciosa», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Its 7-hydroxy metabolite is recorded separately in this corpus and is equally absent. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Modafinil

Legal status: Not listed. Modafinil has no entry. It is a benzhydryl sulphinyl acetamide, a structure with no counterpart among the listed stimulants, which are the amphetamines and phenylalkylamines of acápite II of Categoría II and acápite I of Categoría III and the anorectics of acápite II of Categoría IV. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: None of the law's three stimulant groups carries a compound of this structural class. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Modafinil is a prescription medicine for narcolepsy and related conditions. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88, its prescription position is governed by the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 rather than by the drug law. Carry any prescribed supply in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «modafinilo», «modafinil» and «adrafinilo», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Modafinil was first licensed in France in 1994, six years after the Categorías were enacted. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Morphine

Legal status: Controlled. Morphine is the entry «Morfina» at number 13 of acápite I of Categoría II of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 9300.
Consequences if caught: Morphine is the principal alkaloid of opium and therefore a derivative of it, which is the limb article 7 names beside LSD, so the trafficker classification attaches at any quantity. Article 7 is the harshest rule in the law and it carries no quantity at all: «Cuando se trate de LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena, lo mismo que el opio y sus derivados, en la cantidad que fuera, se clasificará a la persona o las personas procesadas como traficantes.» The effect is that the article 75 role scale starts at its trafficker band for this row rather than at simple possession, so the prison band is five to twenty years. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fine for a trafficker is not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000, and for a patrocinador not less than RD$1,000,000. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: A medicine containing this substance is a sustancia controlada under article 2 acápite XLIII because it sits in acápite I of Categoría II. Articles 31 and 48 of Ley 50-88 confine such medicines to pharmacies and to a dispensed prescription, and article 28 forbids carrying controlled drugs without lawful authority. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: A preparation carrying not more than 50 milligrams of morphine per 100 millilitres or per 100 grams with one or more active non narcotic ingredients in therapeutic doses sits instead at number 8 of acápite III of Categoría III under code 9810, so concentration decides which Categoría a morphine product falls in. Article 9(a) reaches the alkaloids of opium by name. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría II acápite I item 13, code 9300 · Categoría III acápite III item 8, code 9810 · article 7 · article 9(a) · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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MXE

Legal status: Not listed. Neither this compound nor ketamine, the compound it is modelled on, has an entry. The three listed arylcyclohexylamines at numbers 22, 23 and 24 of acápite III of Categoría I are phencyclidine analogues carrying an ethylamine, a pyrrolidine and a thiophene, and none of them is this structure. Article 7 is an open clause: it reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and acápite XXV of article 2 ends its list of the Grupos Alucinógenos with the words «y otras similares». An absence from the Categorías therefore does not close this row. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Its nearest relative in this corpus is also unlisted, so the row has no listed ancestor at any remove. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «metoxetamina», «methoxetamine», «MXE» and «3-MeO-2-Oxo-PCE», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. The compound was first reported in 2010, twenty years after the last statutory amendment to the Categorías. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Nicotine

Legal status: Not listed. Nicotine has no entry in any Categoría. Tobacco is regulated in the Dominican Republic as a consumer product under separate legislation and through excise, and the drug law does not name it. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The row for tobacco itself is recorded separately in this corpus and reaches the same finding. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «nicotina», «nicotine» and «tabaco», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Nicotine is a pyridine alkaloid, and no pyridine alkaloid appears anywhere in the five Categorías. Nicotine replacement products and vaping liquids are consumer and health product questions rather than drug schedule questions. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Not listed. Nimetazepam has no entry among the twelve benzodiazepines of acápite I of Categoría IV. The listed clonazepam at number 6 under code 2737 is also a nitrobenzodiazepine, so the law lists one member of that subgroup and not this one, and it prints no class rule that would carry the listing across. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The dossier for this country recorded this substance inside a quoted entry. That name is not printed in either government copy read here. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Nimetazepam is a hypnotic licensed in few countries. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88, its position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01. Carry any prescribed supply in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «nimetazepam», «nimetazepán» and «nitrobenzodiazepina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Nitrazepam, its unmethylated relative, is equally absent, so the subgroup is represented in the list by clonazepam alone. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Nitrous Oxide

Legal status: Not listed. Nitrous oxide has no entry. It is an inorganic gas, and every substance named in the five Categorías is an organic compound or a plant material, so this row is outside the kind of thing the list contains. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: It is a licensed anaesthetic and analgesic and a food industry propellant, and Ley 50-88 speaks to neither use. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «óxido nitroso», «oxido nitroso», «protóxido de nitrógeno» and «gas hilarante», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. This is the substance that proves absence claims expire: the United Kingdom brought nitrous oxide under control on 8 November 2023 by a statutory instrument made under a 1971 Act, so a cell written against an older consolidation would have been confidently wrong. The finding here is stated against the version read and not beyond it. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Opium

Legal status: Controlled. Opium is carried by six entries at the head of acápite I of Categoría II of article 8 of Ley 50-88, «Opio crudo» under code 9600, «Extractos de opio» under 9610, «Extractos de líquidos opiáceos» under 9620, «Opio en polvo» under 9639, «Opio granulado» under 9640 and «Tintura de Opio» under 9630, with «Concentrado del tallo de opio» at number 17 under code 9670.
Consequences if caught: Opium is the second limb article 7 names in its own words, so the trafficker classification attaches at any quantity and the article 5 and article 6 scales have nothing to say about it. Article 7 is the harshest rule in the law and it carries no quantity at all: «Cuando se trate de LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena, lo mismo que el opio y sus derivados, en la cantidad que fuera, se clasificará a la persona o las personas procesadas como traficantes.» The effect is that the article 75 role scale starts at its trafficker band for this row rather than at simple possession, so the prison band is five to twenty years. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fine for a trafficker is not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000, and for a patrocinador not less than RD$1,000,000. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Article 9(a) names «El opio en todas sus formas, todos sus derivados (alcaloides, sales, preparados o sustitutos sintéticos)» among the drugs the law calls the most dangerous. Acápite III of Categoría III and acápite I of Categoría V place dilute opium preparations in lower Categorías at not more than 500 milligrams and not more than 100 milligrams per 100 millilitres or 100 grams respectively, so the strength of a preparation can move it between Categorías. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entries at Categoría II acápite I items 1 to 6 and 17, codes 9600, 9610, 9620, 9639, 9640, 9630 and 9670 · article 7 · article 9(a) · Categoría III acápite III item 7 · Categoría V acápite I item 5 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Controlled. Oxycodone is the entry «Oxicodona» at number 14 of acápite I of Categoría II of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 9143, with «Oximorfina» at number 15 under code 9652.
Consequences if caught: Oxycodone is a semisynthetic made from thebaine, which the law lists separately at number 16 of the same acápite, so the entry rather than article 7's opium limb is the cleaner route to it. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: A medicine containing this substance is a sustancia controlada under article 2 acápite XLIII because it sits in acápite I of Categoría II. Articles 31 and 48 of Ley 50-88 confine such medicines to pharmacies and to a dispensed prescription, and article 28 forbids carrying controlled drugs without lawful authority. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any opioid, and no milligram or tablet threshold appears anywhere in its text for this substance. The acápite reaches any salt, compound, derivative or preparation of opium and then lists oxycodone expressly, so a combination tablet is covered by the same line as the single ingredient product. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría II acápite I item 14, code 9143 · thebaine at item 16, code 9333 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Peyote

Legal status: Controlled. Peyote is its own entry, «Peyote» at number 16 of acápite III of Categoría I of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 7415, and it does not depend on its alkaloid for its placement.
Consequences if caught: The plant sits in the hallucinogen acápite, so article 7 reaches it at any quantity. Article 7 is the harshest rule in the law and it carries no quantity at all: «Cuando se trate de LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena, lo mismo que el opio y sus derivados, en la cantidad que fuera, se clasificará a la persona o las personas procesadas como traficantes.» The effect is that the article 75 role scale starts at its trafficker band for this row rather than at simple possession, so the prison band is five to twenty years. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fine for a trafficker is not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000, and for a patrocinador not less than RD$1,000,000. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Acápite XXV of article 2 names «Peyote» in the Grupos Alucinógenos. Ley 50-88 prints no botanical name for the cactus and no religious or ceremonial exception anywhere in its text. Mescaline is separately listed at number 14 under code 7381, so an absence of the plant name would not have decided this row either way. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría I acápite III item 16, code 7415 · article 2 acápite XXV · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Phenibut

Legal status: Not listed. Phenibut has no entry. It is a phenylated derivative of gamma-aminobutyric acid, and no compound of that family appears anywhere in the five Categorías. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: It is sold as a supplement in some markets and as a medicine in others, and Ley 50-88 speaks to neither position. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «fenibut», «phenibut» and «ácido beta-fenil-gamma-aminobutírico», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. The compound was developed in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and has never been internationally scheduled. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Poppers

Legal status: Not listed. Poppers is a product label covering several alkyl nitrites, and no alkyl nitrite is named in the Categorías or in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced in 2021. Because the label is not one chemical, the finding is recorded for each nitrite the label covers rather than for a single entry. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Whichever of the nitrites a particular bottle contains, the answer from the two lists read is the same, which is what allows this label row to be answered at all. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «poppers», «nitritos de alquilo», «nitrito de amilo», «nitrito de isopropilo» and «nitrito de butilo», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. The single substance row for amyl nitrite is recorded separately in this corpus. Being outside the drug schedules is not the same as being lawfully sold, because product safety and labelling rules under Ley 42-01 and the consumer protection regime are a separate question this cell does not reach. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Not listed. Pregabalin has no entry. It is a gabapentinoid acting at a calcium channel subunit, and no compound of that class appears anywhere in the five Categorías. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The absence is of the whole gabapentinoid class rather than of this member alone. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Pregabalin is a prescription medicine for neuropathic pain, epilepsy and anxiety. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88, its prescription position is governed by the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 rather than by the drug law. Carry any prescribed supply in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «pregabalina», «pregabalin» and «ácido gamma-aminobutírico», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Pregabalin was first approved in 2004, sixteen years after the Categorías were enacted. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled. Psilocybin is the entry «Psilocibina» at number 19 of acápite III of Categoría I of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 7437, and its dephosphorylated metabolite is the neighbouring entry «Psilocina» at number 20 under code 7438.
Consequences if caught: Because the acápite that carries psilocybin is the hallucinogen acápite, article 7 governs the classification and no quantity of it is treated as simple possession. Article 7 is the harshest rule in the law and it carries no quantity at all: «Cuando se trate de LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena, lo mismo que el opio y sus derivados, en la cantidad que fuera, se clasificará a la persona o las personas procesadas como traficantes.» The effect is that the article 75 role scale starts at its trafficker band for this row rather than at simple possession, so the prison band is five to twenty years. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fine for a trafficker is not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000, and for a patrocinador not less than RD$1,000,000. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. If you are carrying any other controlled medicine, carry it in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Acápite XXV of article 2 names «Psilocibina, Psilocina» in the Grupos Alucinógenos. The mushroom itself has no entry of its own, so the controlled thing is the alkaloid the material contains, and acápite III reaches «los materiales, compuestos, mezclas o preparaciones que contengan una cantidad cualquiera» of it. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entries at Categoría I acápite III items 19 and 20, codes 7437 and 7438 · article 2 acápite XXV · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Quetiapine

Legal status: Not listed. Quetiapine has no entry. It is an atypical antipsychotic, and Ley 50-88 lists no antipsychotic of any generation in any of its five Categorías. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The law's depressant acápites carry hypnotics, sedatives and tranquillisers of the 1980s and no neuroleptic at all. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Quetiapine is a prescription antipsychotic. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88, its prescription position is governed by the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 rather than by the drug law. Carry any prescribed supply in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «quetiapina», «quetiapine» and «dibenzotiazepina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Quetiapine was first approved in 1997, nine years after the Categorías were enacted. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Salvia divinorum

Legal status: Not listed. Neither the plant nor its active diterpene is named in the Categorías. Salvinorin A is a neoclerodane diterpene with no nitrogen atom, which puts it outside every structural class the hallucinogen acápite lists, all of which are amines. Article 7 reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and that test is pharmacological rather than structural, so the argument from structure above does not close the row. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The absence of a nitrogen atom is what makes this row structurally unlike every listed hallucinogen rather than merely unlisted. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «Salvia divinorum», «salvinorina», «salvinorin» and «hierba de la pastora», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Ley 50-88 names three plants expressly, marihuana, peyote and the coca leaf, and article 9 extends only to the Cannabináceas and to coca, so neither plant clause reaches this one. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Not listed. Scopolamine has no entry. It is a tropane alkaloid, and the only tropane compounds in the instrument are cocaine at number 6 of acápite II of Categoría II under code 9041 and its hydrolysis product ecgonine at number 7 under code 9180, neither of which this substance is a salt or an isomer of. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Sharing a tropane skeleton with cocaine is not a placement, and the law names the two coca tropanes individually. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Scopolamine is a licensed medicine for motion sickness and is used in anaesthesia. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88, its prescription position is governed by the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 rather than by the drug law. Carry any prescribed supply, including a transdermal patch, in its original packaging with the prescription and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «escopolamina», «scopolamine», «hioscina» and «burundanga», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. The solanaceous plants that carry it have no entries of their own. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Not listed. Synthetic cannabinoids are a label covering many unrelated chemical families, and none of them is named in the Categorías. The one cannabinoid entry the law carries, «Tetrahidrocanabinoles» at number 21 of acápite III of Categoría I under code 7370, is the tetrahydro family and does not reach an indole or indazole carboxamide, which is a different structure altogether. Acápite XXIX of article 2 defines «Marihuana» by reference to the plant, so a compound never derived from the plant is outside it. Acápite XXV of article 2 places «el THC (Tetrahidrocannabinol)» in the Grupos Alucinógenos and ends that list with «y otras similares», and article 7 reaches a sustancia alucinógena at any quantity, so a compound designed to act as THC acts is not closed out by the absence alone. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Both routes that reach cannabis fail here for the same reason, that the compounds are neither tetrahydrocannabinols nor derivatives of the plant. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «cannabinoides sintéticos», «canabinoides sintéticos», «JWH», «Spice» and «K2», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Ley 50-88 prints no generic or analogue clause of the kind other countries use to reach this family, and the Categorías have not been amended by statute since 7 June 1990. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Tobacco

Legal status: Not listed. Tobacco has no entry. Ley 50-88 names three plants expressly, «Marihuana» under code 7360, «Peyote» under 7415 and «Hojas de coca» under 9040, and this leaf is not among them. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Tobacco is an agricultural export of the Dominican Republic and is regulated as a consumer product and through excise, not through the drug schedules. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «tabaco», «tobacco», «Nicotiana tabacum» and «nicotina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. The row for nicotine, the alkaloid it carries, is recorded separately in this corpus and reaches the same finding. Article 9 extends only to the Cannabináceas and to coca, so neither of the law's plant clauses reaches this one. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Tramadol

Legal status: Not listed. Tramadol has no entry. It is a fully synthetic cyclohexanol and not a derivative of opium, so neither the opening words of acápite I of Categoría II nor the opium limb of article 7 reaches it. The synthetic opioids the law does list, «Metadona» under code 9250, «Fentanil» under 9801 and «Dextropropoxifeno» under 9273, are named individually. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The law places synthetic opioids by name rather than by class, so an unnamed synthetic opioid is outside the list. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Tramadol is a prescription analgesic. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88, its prescription position is governed by the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 rather than by the drug law. Carry any prescribed supply in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «tramadol», «clorhidrato de tramadol» and «tramadol hidrocloruro», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Tramadol was introduced to the market in 1977 and was not internationally scheduled when the Categorías were written. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Controlled. Alprazolam is the entry «Alprazolam» at number 1 of acápite I of Categoría IV of article 8 of Ley 50-88 under identification code 2882, the first line of that Categoría.
Consequences if caught: Categoría IV is the second lowest class in the law, and the entry reaches any material, compound, mixture or preparation containing any quantity of the substance, its salts, its isomers and their salts. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: A medicine containing this substance is a sustancia controlada under article 2 acápite XLIII because it sits in acápite I of Categoría IV. Articles 31 and 48 of Ley 50-88 confine such medicines to pharmacies and to a dispensed prescription, and article 28 forbids carrying controlled drugs without lawful authority. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: Eleven other benzodiazepines are listed in the same acápite: chlordiazepoxide, clonazepam, clorazepate, diazepam, flurazepam, halazepam, lorazepam, oxazepam, prazepam, temazepam and triazolam. The law prints no benzodiazepine class rule, so the list is closed and a benzodiazepine not on it has no entry. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · entry at Categoría IV acápite I item 1, code 2882 · articles 31 and 48 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Xylazine

Legal status: Not listed. Xylazine has no entry. It is a veterinary alpha-2 adrenergic agonist and a thiazine, and no adrenergic agonist and no thiazine appears anywhere in the five Categorías. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: It is the adulterant most often reported alongside fentanyl, and the law reaches the fentanyl and not this. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Xylazine is a veterinary sedative and is not licensed for human use. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88, its position is a matter for the veterinary medicines regime rather than for the drug law. Article 49 of Ley 50-88 deals with veterinarians only in relation to the controlled drugs its Categorías name. No human prescription route exists for it, so a traveller has no prescription to carry for this substance.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «xilacina», «xylazine», «Rompun» and «tiazina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Where a sample contains both xylazine and a listed opioid, it is the listed opioid that carries the offence. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Not listed. Zolpidem has no entry. It is an imidazopyridine and not a benzodiazepine, and the non benzodiazepine hypnotics the law does list, «Glutetimida» under code 2550, «Metiprilón» under 2575, «Etclorovinol» under 2540 and the chloral compounds, are the older generation and not this one. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: The law lists hypnotics by individual name across three Categorías, and none of those names is this substance. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical: Zolpidem is a prescription hypnotic. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88, its prescription position is governed by the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 rather than by the drug law. Carry any prescribed supply in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: The terms searched for this row were «zolpidem», «tartrato de zolpidem» and «imidazopiridina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Zolpidem reached the market in 1988, the year Ley 50-88 was enacted. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.

Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026

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Substance	What we found
Cannabinol	Not confirmed. Cannabinol is the oxidised breakdown product of THC and it is not itself a tetrahydrocannabinol, its...
CBD	Not confirmed. Cannabidiol has no entry of its own in the Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, and it is not a...
HHC	Not confirmed. Hexahydrocannabinol is a hydrogenated cannabinoid whose ring carries no double bond at all, so it is...
MDMA	Not confirmed. MDMA is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88 in either government copy read for...
PCP	Not confirmed. Phencyclidine itself has no entry in the Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, and what the law...
Pink Cocaine / Tusi	Not confirmed. Pink cocaine is a street label rather than a substance, and it is not a name the Dominican Republic...
THC-P	Not confirmed. Tetrahydrocannabiphorol is a tetrahydrocannabinol with a seven carbon side chain in place of the five...