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Legality · DXM

Is DXM legal in Georgia?

Confirmed against a primary sourceVerified September 21, 2026
Legal status
DXM is not carried on Georgia's narcotics lists and it is not therefore unregulated. The dossier records a separate regime finding: the annexes to Law No. 624 were searched with "DXM" and "dekstrometorfan" and supplied no entry, and the controls the dossier names instead are საქართველოს კანონი წამლისა და ფარმაცევტული საქმიანობის შესახებ. The regime recorded instead is the medicines law, reached here after a search that used the code and a transliterated chemical name rather than one word in two cases. The dossier records the regime by name and does not reproduce its provisions, so nothing here states what that regime requires. The final consolidated text was read on the Legislative Herald of Georgia, which the dossier calls Matsne, on 20 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Georgia has abolished the death penalty and the dossier records no capital route for any substance on these lists. Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, whose ceiling is life imprisonment for aggravated illegal circulation, operates on the narcotics lists, and this product has been established not to be on them, so the circulation offence does not reach it, and what applies is medicinal product control, which the dossier names without reproducing its provisions. The quantity table that governs listed substances is not the instrument that applies to this row, and no penalty figure is given in this cell because the dossier names the regime without reproducing it. Nothing here says the product is free of control, only that the control is not the one Article 260 administers.
If prescribed or medical
The prescription position is deferred here rather than stated. No Georgian rule on a traveller carrying a prescribed supply has been established for this substance, so whether a foreign prescription is recognised has to be settled with the Georgian authorities before travel. The placement this row attaches is a regime rather than a list entry: the substance sits under საქართველოს კანონი წამლისა და ფარმაცევტული საქმიანობის შესახებ. It is an over the counter antitussive in many systems, and the dossier records the medicines law without recording a dispensing class or an import allowance.
Documentation
The dossier records no documentary requirement for Georgia and carries no column for one, so nothing is prescribed in this cell. What the row fixes is which regime was found to apply, საქართველოს კანონი წამლისა და ფარმაცევტული საქმიანობის შესახებ, recorded after the narcotics lists had actually been searched. The sensible document is the pharmacy packaging, although nothing in the dossier makes that a Georgian requirement. The record and its outcome were read on 20 September 2026 and this cell is dated 21 September 2026.
Primary sources
  • Georgia, Law No. 624 and its annexed Lists I to IV, with Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia carrying the penalty ceiling
  • the annexes supplied no entry for this row, so the instrument that governs it is საქართველოს კანონი წამლისა და ფარმაცევტული საქმიანობის შესახებ, recorded at GEO-37. Read in the final consolidated text on the Legislative Herald of Georgia, which the dossier calls Matsne, on 20 September 2026. The set that produced this record used two genuinely different names for the substance rather than one name in two cases. No per row link exists in the dossier this cell is built from, which carries no web address for this substance or for any other, so the instrument is cited in prose and no address is given
  • none has been taken from the previous version of this cell or from anywhere else. The dossier's outcome for this row is verified.

Court records

We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.

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