Legal status in Egypt

1P-LSD

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the second section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها». Item 129 is «1P - LSD», 1-propionyl lysergic acid diethylamide (PDF page 21, gazette page 22). Named. It sits beside «(+)-Lysergide» at item 71 and «1 CP- LSD» at item 130 in the same section. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. 1P-LSD is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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2-FDCK

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3, not as a Table 1 narcotic substance. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 4, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الرابع», whose heading covers the listed substances «وأملاحها ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها». Item 19 is «2-Fluorodeschloroketamine», «2-(2-Fluorophenyl1) -2-methylamino-cyclohexanone» (PDF page 29, gazette page 30). Named, beside «Ketamine» at item 3. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960 for a Table 3 substance. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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25I-NBOMe

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1, by group and not by name. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 12, «Phenethylamine», as replaced by Decision 242 (Decision 242 PDF page 2, gazette page 10), lists among its examples «Amphetamine», «Methamphetamine», «STP, DOM», «MESCALINE», «MDMA», «TMA», «DOET», 2C-B and «Benzphetamine», with 4-MTA. Decision 242 then excludes, «وفيما عدا المواد المشتقة الآتية», «Venlafaxine», «Desvenlafaxine», «Carbidopa», «Levodopa», «Foscarbidopa», «Melevodopa» and «Foslevodopa» (Decision 242 PDF page 3, gazette page 11). 25I-NBOMe is not printed. It is the N-(2-methoxybenzyl) derivative of 2C-I, 4-iodo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, a substance derived from phenethylamine, and the section heading reaches the substances derived from each group. That exclusion was needed only because the derivative clause reaches medicines built on the phenethylamine skeleton, which is the textual ground for reading the clause broadly. Against a fully broad reading, Table 1 Section 2 prints by name several substances built on the same skeleton, among them «Methylphenidate» item 87, «Fenetylline» item 108, «Cathinone» item 109 and «Aminorex» item 111, so the drafters did not rely on group 12 alone; the readings closest to a printed example, the 2C series beside 2C-B, are the strongest, and 25I-NBOMe and 6-APB the weakest. The group already prints an N-benzyl member, «Benzphetamine». That is a reading of the group's terms, stated as such. Article 1 bis, added by Law 134/2019, treats synthetic substances in Table 1 as narcotic substances. Article 1 bis also provides «ويصدر بتحديد ضوابط ومعايير هذه المواد قرار من الوزير المختص», a ministerial decision setting criteria for the synthetic substances; no such decision appears in the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026. The heading excludes a substance listed in another table: none of Tables 2, 3, 5 and 6 names it, on their page images. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death, on the group 12 reading; none under Law 182/1960 if a court does not read 25I-NBOMe as derived from phenethylamine. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». 25I-NBOMe is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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2C-B

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 12, «Phenethylamine», as replaced by Decision 242 (Decision 242 PDF page 2, gazette page 10), lists among its examples «Amphetamine», «Methamphetamine», «STP, DOM», «MESCALINE», «MDMA», «TMA», «DOET», 2C-B and «Benzphetamine», with 4-MTA. Decision 242 then excludes, «وفيما عدا المواد المشتقة الآتية», «Venlafaxine», «Desvenlafaxine», «Carbidopa», «Levodopa», «Foscarbidopa», «Melevodopa» and «Foslevodopa» (Decision 242 PDF page 3, gazette page 11). 2C-B, whose printed spacing the scan does not settle, is printed as an example of the group, with the scientific name «4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine». The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». 2C-B is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

2C-B in Egypt, full detail →

2C-E

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1, by group and not by name. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 12, «Phenethylamine», as replaced by Decision 242 (Decision 242 PDF page 2, gazette page 10), lists among its examples «Amphetamine», «Methamphetamine», «STP, DOM», «MESCALINE», «MDMA», «TMA», «DOET», 2C-B and «Benzphetamine», with 4-MTA. Decision 242 then excludes, «وفيما عدا المواد المشتقة الآتية», «Venlafaxine», «Desvenlafaxine», «Carbidopa», «Levodopa», «Foscarbidopa», «Melevodopa» and «Foslevodopa» (Decision 242 PDF page 3, gazette page 11). 2C-E is not printed. It is 4-ethyl-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, the ethyl counterpart of the printed 2C-B and of «DOET» without its alpha methyl group, a substance derived from phenethylamine, and the section heading reaches the substances derived from each group. That exclusion was needed only because the derivative clause reaches medicines built on the phenethylamine skeleton, which is the textual ground for reading the clause broadly. Against a fully broad reading, Table 1 Section 2 prints by name several substances built on the same skeleton, among them «Methylphenidate» item 87, «Fenetylline» item 108, «Cathinone» item 109 and «Aminorex» item 111, so the drafters did not rely on group 12 alone; the readings closest to a printed example, the 2C series beside 2C-B, are the strongest, and 25I-NBOMe and 6-APB the weakest. That is a reading of the group's terms, stated as such. Article 1 bis, added by Law 134/2019, treats synthetic substances in Table 1 as narcotic substances. Article 1 bis also provides «ويصدر بتحديد ضوابط ومعايير هذه المواد قرار من الوزير المختص», a ministerial decision setting criteria for the synthetic substances; no such decision appears in the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026. The heading excludes a substance listed in another table: none of Tables 2, 3, 5 and 6 names it, on their page images. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death, on the group 12 reading; none under Law 182/1960 if a court does not read 2C-E as derived from phenethylamine. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». 2C-E is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

2C-E in Egypt, full detail →

2C-I

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1, by group and not by name. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 12, «Phenethylamine», as replaced by Decision 242 (Decision 242 PDF page 2, gazette page 10), lists among its examples «Amphetamine», «Methamphetamine», «STP, DOM», «MESCALINE», «MDMA», «TMA», «DOET», 2C-B and «Benzphetamine», with 4-MTA. Decision 242 then excludes, «وفيما عدا المواد المشتقة الآتية», «Venlafaxine», «Desvenlafaxine», «Carbidopa», «Levodopa», «Foscarbidopa», «Melevodopa» and «Foslevodopa» (Decision 242 PDF page 3, gazette page 11). 2C-I is not printed. It is 4-iodo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, the iodo counterpart of the printed 2C-B, a substance derived from phenethylamine, and the section heading reaches the substances derived from each group. That exclusion was needed only because the derivative clause reaches medicines built on the phenethylamine skeleton, which is the textual ground for reading the clause broadly. Against a fully broad reading, Table 1 Section 2 prints by name several substances built on the same skeleton, among them «Methylphenidate» item 87, «Fenetylline» item 108, «Cathinone» item 109 and «Aminorex» item 111, so the drafters did not rely on group 12 alone; the readings closest to a printed example, the 2C series beside 2C-B, are the strongest, and 25I-NBOMe and 6-APB the weakest. That is a reading of the group's terms, stated as such. Article 1 bis, added by Law 134/2019, treats synthetic substances in Table 1 as narcotic substances. Article 1 bis also provides «ويصدر بتحديد ضوابط ومعايير هذه المواد قرار من الوزير المختص», a ministerial decision setting criteria for the synthetic substances; no such decision appears in the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026. The heading excludes a substance listed in another table: none of Tables 2, 3, 5 and 6 names it, on their page images. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death, on the group 12 reading; none under Law 182/1960 if a court does not read 2C-I as derived from phenethylamine. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». 2C-I is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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2C-T-7

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1, by group and not by name. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 12, «Phenethylamine», as replaced by Decision 242 (Decision 242 PDF page 2, gazette page 10), lists among its examples «Amphetamine», «Methamphetamine», «STP, DOM», «MESCALINE», «MDMA», «TMA», «DOET», 2C-B and «Benzphetamine», with 4-MTA. Decision 242 then excludes, «وفيما عدا المواد المشتقة الآتية», «Venlafaxine», «Desvenlafaxine», «Carbidopa», «Levodopa», «Foscarbidopa», «Melevodopa» and «Foslevodopa» (Decision 242 PDF page 3, gazette page 11). 2C-T-7 is not printed. It is 2,5-dimethoxy-4-(propylthio)phenethylamine, a phenethylamine with a sulphur substituent on the ring, like the printed 4-MTA, a substance derived from phenethylamine, and the section heading reaches the substances derived from each group. That exclusion was needed only because the derivative clause reaches medicines built on the phenethylamine skeleton, which is the textual ground for reading the clause broadly. Against a fully broad reading, Table 1 Section 2 prints by name several substances built on the same skeleton, among them «Methylphenidate» item 87, «Fenetylline» item 108, «Cathinone» item 109 and «Aminorex» item 111, so the drafters did not rely on group 12 alone; the readings closest to a printed example, the 2C series beside 2C-B, are the strongest, and 25I-NBOMe and 6-APB the weakest. That is a reading of the group's terms, stated as such. Article 1 bis, added by Law 134/2019, treats synthetic substances in Table 1 as narcotic substances. Article 1 bis also provides «ويصدر بتحديد ضوابط ومعايير هذه المواد قرار من الوزير المختص», a ministerial decision setting criteria for the synthetic substances; no such decision appears in the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026. The heading excludes a substance listed in another table: none of Tables 2, 3, 5 and 6 names it, on their page images. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death, on the group 12 reading; none under Law 182/1960 if a court does not read 2C-T-7 as derived from phenethylamine. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». 2C-T-7 is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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3-MMC

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1, by group and not by name. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 6, «الكاثينون المستبدل» «Substituted Cathinone», lists «Methcathinone», «Methyl Ethcathinone», «Ethcathinone» and «C4-Chloroethcathinone» (PDF page 5, gazette page 6). 3-MMC, 3-methylmethcathinone, is not printed. It is methcathinone with a methyl group at the third ring position, a substituted cathinone, and the section heading reaches the substances derived from each group. That is a reading of the group's terms, stated as such. The heading excludes a substance listed in another table: none of Tables 2, 3, 5 and 6 names it, on their page images. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». 3-MMC is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the second section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها». Item 96 is «Psilocin, psilotsin», «3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indol-4-ol» (PDF page 18, gazette page 19). 4-AcO-DMT, 4-acetoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, is not printed. It is the acetic acid ester of psilocin's 4-hydroxy group, and the section heading extends every entry to «وإستراتها», its esters, so item 96 reaches it. That is a reading of the heading, stated as such; psilocybin, item 27, is the phosphate ester of psilocin and is printed in its own right. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. 4-AcO-DMT is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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6-APB

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1, by group and not by name. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 12, «Phenethylamine», as replaced by Decision 242 (Decision 242 PDF page 2, gazette page 10), lists among its examples «Amphetamine», «Methamphetamine», «STP, DOM», «MESCALINE», «MDMA», «TMA», «DOET», 2C-B and «Benzphetamine», with 4-MTA. Decision 242 then excludes, «وفيما عدا المواد المشتقة الآتية», «Venlafaxine», «Desvenlafaxine», «Carbidopa», «Levodopa», «Foscarbidopa», «Melevodopa» and «Foslevodopa» (Decision 242 PDF page 3, gazette page 11). 6-APB is not printed. It is 6-(2-aminopropyl)benzofuran, an amphetamine whose benzene ring is fused to a furan ring, a substance derived from phenethylamine, and the section heading reaches the substances derived from each group. That exclusion was needed only because the derivative clause reaches medicines built on the phenethylamine skeleton, which is the textual ground for reading the clause broadly. Against a fully broad reading, Table 1 Section 2 prints by name several substances built on the same skeleton, among them «Methylphenidate» item 87, «Fenetylline» item 108, «Cathinone» item 109 and «Aminorex» item 111, so the drafters did not rely on group 12 alone; the readings closest to a printed example, the 2C series beside 2C-B, are the strongest, and 25I-NBOMe and 6-APB the weakest. The aminopropyl chain sits on the benzene ring, so the phenethylamine core is intact, as it is in MDA; what differs is the fused ring, a furan where the printed fused ring members, among them «MDMA» and «Tenamphetamine», carry a methylenedioxy ring. That difference makes it the weakest of the group 12 readings in this batch. That is a reading of the group's terms, stated as such. Article 1 bis, added by Law 134/2019, treats synthetic substances in Table 1 as narcotic substances. Article 1 bis also provides «ويصدر بتحديد ضوابط ومعايير هذه المواد قرار من الوزير المختص», a ministerial decision setting criteria for the synthetic substances; no such decision appears in the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026. The heading excludes a substance listed in another table: none of Tables 2, 3, 5 and 6 names it, on their page images. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death, on the group 12 reading; none under Law 182/1960 if a court does not read 6-APB as derived from phenethylamine. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». 6-APB is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)

Legal status: Not listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. 7-Hydroxymitragynine, the oxidised kratom alkaloid sold in concentrated products, is not printed in Tables 1 to 3, on the page images of all six tables of Decision 44 and of Decision 242, read entry by entry, as at 3 October 2026, with two English OCR passes and one Arabic OCR pass over every page as a second check. It is a derivative of mitragynine, which is itself not listed, so no entry's ester, ether, salt or isomer clause reaches it. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960. Its penalty articles, from Article 33 and Article 34, which carry death, to Article 45, attach to the substances in Tables 1 and 3 and the plants in Table 5, and 7-hydroxymitragynine is in none of them. Customs, pharmacy and other laws were not read for this cell. The template text this cell carried before is superseded: it cited Act 440/2018 for synthetic cannabinoids, which Decision 44's replacement of every table overtook, and gave Article 38(1) a band of three to ten years, where the article sets aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. The death penalty articles of Law 182/1960 are Article 33 and Article 34, and they reach only what the tables list. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Adderall, mixed amphetamine salts, is controlled as amphetamine, a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 12, «فينيثيل أمين» «Phenethylamine», lists «Amphetamine», «1-phenylpropan-2-amine», and «Dexamphetamine», «(2S)-1-phenylpropan-2-amine» (PDF page 6, gazette page 7). Adderall has no entry of its own; it is a preparation of amphetamine and dexamphetamine salts, and the section heading reaches a preparation or mixture containing them. Table 4, «الحد الأقصى لكميات الجواهر المخدرة الذي لا يجوز تجاوزه في وصفة طبية واحدة», sets a per prescription maximum for «Amphetamine» tablets and «Dexamphetamine» tablets and ampoules (PDF page 32, gazette page 33). That table is headed as quantities of narcotic substances, so it is read as presupposing the Table 1 placement rather than as the other table that the Section 1(b) heading excludes. Decision 242's replacement text for item 12, read by OCR of its scan, still names this substance. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law 182/1960 schedule 1 as amended by Law 122/1989, and of Decision 600 of 2023 is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since. The live cell recorded that Article 32 of Law 182/1960 delegates amendment of the tables to the Minister; Decision 44 is a ministerial decision, which is consistent with that, and Article 32 itself was not read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». Amphetamine, and so Adderall, is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Prescription stimulant via strictly controlled medical channels; carrying it without a local permit/prescription risks arrest.
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Alcohol

Legal status: Legal / licensed, alcohol (ethanol) is a licensed, age-regulated beverage (minimum age 21), not a controlled drug; domestically produced and sold in licensed outlets and tourist venues.
Consequences if caught: No penalty for licensed adult consumption; public intoxication is an offence, and sale is curtailed during Ramadan and for locals in some areas.
If prescribed / medical: n/a, a beverage, not a medicine.
Documentation: Bought at licensed liquor shops, hotels and bars on proof of age; duty-free purchase on arrival is common. No permit required for tourists.

travel.state.gov · The power that moves this list is article 32 of Law No. 182 of 1960, which delegates amendment of the tables to the Minister. As those tables stand after Ministerial Decision 242 of 2026, which amends the tables supplied by Ministerial Decision 44 of 2026, made after the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them, no later decision was located. That does not rule out a later amendment made or commenced since. · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Amanita muscaria

Legal status: Not listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. The fly agaric mushroom is not in Table 5, which lists plants only, cannabis, the opium poppy, every Papaver species, coca and khat (PDF page 33, gazette page 34), and its active compounds, muscimol and ibotenic acid, are not printed in Tables 1 to 3, on the page images of all six tables of Decision 44 and of Decision 242, read entry by entry, as at 3 October 2026, with two English OCR passes and one Arabic OCR pass over every page as a second check. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960. Its penalty articles, from Article 33 and Article 34, which carry death, to Article 45, attach to the substances in Tables 1 and 3 and the plants in Table 5, and neither the mushroom nor muscimol or ibotenic acid is in them. Customs, pharmacy and other laws were not read for this cell. The template text this cell carried before is superseded: it cited Act 440/2018 for synthetic cannabinoids, which Decision 44's replacement of every table overtook, and gave Article 38(1) a band of three to ten years, where the article sets aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. The death penalty articles of Law 182/1960 are Article 33 and Article 34, and they reach only what the tables list. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 12, «فينيثيل أمين» «Phenethylamine», lists «Amphetamine» with the scientific name «1-phenylpropan-2-amine» (PDF page 6, gazette page 7). Named as an example of the group. Table 4, «الحد الأقصى لكميات الجواهر المخدرة الذي لا يجوز تجاوزه في وصفة طبية واحدة», sets a per prescription maximum for «Amphetamine» tablets and «Dexamphetamine» tablets and ampoules (PDF page 32, gazette page 33). That table is headed as quantities of narcotic substances, so it is read as presupposing the Table 1 placement rather than as the other table that the Section 1(b) heading excludes. Decision 242's replacement text for item 12, read by OCR of its scan, still names this substance. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law 182/1960 Schedule 1 as amended by Law 122/1989 is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since. The tables are annexed to Law 182/1960.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». Amphetamine is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Prescription stimulant via strictly controlled medical channels; carrying it without a local permit/prescription risks arrest.
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3, not as a Table 1 narcotic substance. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 3, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الثالث», whose heading covers the listed substances «وأملاحها ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها». Item 57, added by Decision 242 of 2026 and in force from 18 August 2026, is «أميل نيتريت» «Amyl nitrite», «(3-methylbutyl) nitrite» (Decision 242 PDF page 3, gazette page 11). Named. The scientific name printed at item 57 is that of isoamyl nitrite, the same molecule as «Isoamyl nitrite» at item 58. Straight chain n-pentyl nitrite is reached only through the bare label «Amyl nitrite», or through «نظائرها» in the section heading if that undefined word means analogues. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960 for a Table 3 substance. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt through its DMT content, a narcotic substance in the second section of Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها», item 99 is «DMT», «3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indole» (PDF page 18, gazette page 19), and the same heading reaches «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص أو أي مركب آخر يحتوي على أي مما سبق، وبأي نسبة كانت». Ayahuasca has no entry. It is a brewed mixture, usually of a DMT bearing leaf with a vine that contains harmala alkaloids, and a brew containing DMT is read as a mixture or extract containing it, a reading stated as such. Neither plant is in Table 5, which lists only cannabis, the opium poppy and every Papaver species, coca and khat, so the plants themselves are not the Article 33(c) offence. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. DMT, and so a brew containing it, is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Barbiturates

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt mostly in Table 3, with three barbiturates in Table 1. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 3, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الثالث». Items 3 «Barbital», 4 «Pentobarbital», 7 «Cyclobarbital», 10 «Phenobarbital» and 12 «Methylphenobarbital» (PDF page 23, gazette page 24) and 34 «Allobarbital» and 35 «Butobarbital» (PDF page 25, gazette page 26). This is a class row and Egypt lists members, not the class. Three barbiturates are in Table 1 Section 2 and are narcotic substances under Article 1: «Amobarbital» item 15 (PDF page 11, gazette page 12), «Butalbital» item 40 (PDF page 13, gazette page 14) and «Secobarbital» item 62 (PDF page 15, gazette page 16). The earlier statement that barbiturates sit outside the narcotic tables is not borne out for those three. A barbiturate printed in neither table is not answered by this row. The earlier citation of MoH Decree 301/1976 under Law 182/1960 as Schedule IV is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since. Decision 44's preamble cites the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances; the Convention itself was not read for this cell.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death for amobarbital, butalbital and secobarbital, which are in Table 1; none for the barbiturates listed in Table 3, among them phenobarbital, which are in Table 3. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». For the Table 3 members: Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. For the Table 1 members, in its second section: Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. Each of them is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Phenobarbital is a Table 3 medicine and amobarbital, butalbital and secobarbital are Table 1 narcotic substances under Law 182/1960. The live cell's description of phenobarbital as a WHO Essential Medicine antiepileptic is carried, not re-read, and the dispensing rules were not read for this cell.
Documentation: Carry a prescription and keep medicines in original packaging; declare controlled medicines, undocumented psychotropics have led to arrests.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3 as a class, with one member in Table 1. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 4, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الرابع». Item 2 is «البنزوديازيبين وجميع المواد المشتقة منها» «Benzodiazepine and it’s derivatives», printed as a «Drug class» (PDF page 28, gazette page 29), and item 16 is «Triazolobenzodiazepine and it’s derivatives» (PDF page 29, gazette page 30). The class is named. One member sits in the heavier table: «Flunitrazepam» is Table 1 Section 2 item 113 (PDF page 19, gazette page 20), a narcotic substance under Article 1. «Etizolam» is listed separately at item 14. Diazepam is not printed by name and is reached through item 2 as a benzodiazepine derivative, a reading stated as such. The earlier citation of Pharmacy Law 127/1955 and MoH Decree 301/1976 under Law 182/1960 is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since. The governing statute is the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death for flunitrazepam, which is in Table 1; none for the class entry and its derivatives, which are in Table 3. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». For the Table 3 members: Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. For the Table 1 member, in its second section: Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. It is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the second section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها». Item 116 is «بوبرينورفين» «Buprenorphine» (PDF page 20, gazette page 21). Named. The earlier description of a lighter tier than methadone is not borne out: both sit in the same section. The earlier citation of Anti-Narcotics Law 182/1960 is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since. This is Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as amended by Law 122/1989.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. Buprenorphine is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Dispensed as a controlled prescription medicine on a controlled register with prior MoH approval.
Documentation: Prior MoH approval is needed to import controlled narcotics; carry a prescription and keep medicines in original packaging, undocumented opioids have led to arrests.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Caffeine

Legal status: Not listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Caffeine is not printed on the page images of all six tables of Decision 44 and of Decision 242, read entry by entry, as at 3 October 2026, with two English OCR passes and one Arabic OCR pass over every page as a second check. The one xanthine printed is «Fenetylline», Table 1 Section 2 item 108, «7-[2-[(α-methylphenethyl)amino]ethyl]theophylline» (PDF page 19, gazette page 20), a theophylline joined to amphetamine, which is not caffeine; nothing in Table 3's precursor list is a xanthine. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960. Its penalty articles, from Article 33 and Article 34, which carry death, to Article 45, attach to the substances in Tables 1 and 3 and the plants in Table 5, and caffeine is in none of them. Customs, pharmacy and other laws were not read for this cell. The template text this cell carried before is superseded: it cited Act 440/2018 for synthetic cannabinoids, which Decision 44's replacement of every table overtook, and gave Article 38(1) a band of three to ten years, where the article sets aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. The death penalty articles of Law 182/1960 are Article 33 and Article 34, and they reach only what the tables list. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Cannabinol

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in Egypt's Table 1, by two readings of the table, neither of which prints the name. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances. Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them: Group 7, «القنبيات التقليدية - قنب ثنائي بنزوبيران» «Classical Cannabinoids Dibenzopyran», prints «DMHP», «3-(1,2-dimethylheptyl)-7,8,9,10-tetrahydro-6,6,9-trimethyl-6Hdibenzo[b,d]pyran-1-ol», as its example (PDF page 5, gazette page 6). Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها»: item 54, «حشيش (قنب)» «Cannabis», reaches «أي من عناصر القنب الفعالة في أي من المنتجات أو المركبات أو المستحضرات وبأي نسبة كانت» (PDF page 14, gazette page 15). Cannabinol, 6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pyran-1-ol, is a dibenzopyran classical cannabinoid, which brings it under group 7 as a derived substance, and it is a constituent of cannabis, which brings it under item 54 if it counts as one of cannabis's active elements. It is not an isomer of «Tetrahydrocannabinol», item 95, so that entry's isomer clause does not reach it. Both routes are readings, stated as such, and which section governs decides the trafficking tier. Each has evidence against it. Against group 7, the printed dibenzopyran «Parahexyl», «3-hexyl-7,8,9,10-tetrahydro-6,6,9-trimethyl-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pyran-1-ol», sits in Section 2 at item 97 (PDF page 18, gazette page 19). Against item 54, Decision 242 placed another cannabis constituent that is not THC, «Cannabidiol (CBD)», in Table 3 Section 3 as item 61, which suggests that not every constituent is treated as an active element of item 54. The heading excludes a substance listed in another table: none of Tables 2, 3, 5 and 6 names it, on their page images. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». On the group 7 reading, cannabinol is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. On the item 54 reading it would instead be in the second section, where Article 34 allows death or life imprisonment and Article 38(2) does not apply. The table does not settle which reading a court applies. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Controlled twice in Egypt: as a narcotic substance in the second section of Table 1 and as a plant whose cultivation is prohibited. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها», item 54 is «حشيش (قنب)» «Cannabis» «بجميع أنواعه ومسمياته» (PDF page 14, gazette page 15). «الجدول رقم (٥) - النباتات الممنوع زراعتها», Table 5, the plants whose cultivation is prohibited, item 1 is «قنب (Cannabis) بجميع أصنافه ومسمياته ذكرًا كان أو أنثى» (PDF page 33, gazette page 34). Named in both tables. Item 54 extends to the resin, the dried flowers and leaves, extracts such as hashish oil and «أي من عناصر القنب الفعالة في أي من المنتجات أو المركبات أو المستحضرات وبأي نسبة كانت». Table 2 item 5 excepts «المستحضرات التي قاعدتها خلاصة أو صبغة القنب ولا تُستعمل إلا من الظاهر», preparations based on a cannabis extract or tincture for external use only (PDF page 21, gazette page 22). The earlier citation of Anti-Narcotics Law 182/1960 Schedule 1 and Schedule 5 is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. Cannabis is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. As a Table 5 plant: Article 33(c) punishes cultivating any Table 5 plant, or exporting, importing, possessing, acquiring, buying, selling, delivering or transporting it at any stage of growth, or its seeds, with intent to trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes cultivating, possessing or buying a Table 5 plant for personal use by a term of hard labour and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds, and Article 38(1) punishes it without intent to trade or to use by a term of hard labour and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 42 orders confiscation of the plants, their seeds and land the offender owns. The earlier figure of at least one year and a fine from 1,000 pounds for personal use belongs to Article 39, use in premises prepared for use, not to Article 37's personal use tier. The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine. Table 4 sets prescription maxima for «Cannabis» (600 milligrams), «Cannabis resin» and «Cannabis extract» (200 milligrams each), «Cannabis liquid extract» and «Cannabis tincture» (items 20 to 24, PDF page 31, gazette page 32), which is read as the law contemplating cannabis prescriptions in Egypt; whether any cannabis medicine is dispensed was not read. The live cell's statement that it cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription is carried, not re-read.
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the second section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها». Item 109 is «كاثينون» «Cathinone», «(-)-(S)-2-aminopropiophenone» (PDF page 19, gazette page 20). Named. Cathine is separately listed at Table 3 Section 3 item 31. The earlier citation of Law 182/1960 as amended and the 1971 Convention Schedule I transposition is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. Cathinone is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: 1971 Schedule I substance with no accepted medical use and no lawful prescription route for the isolated alkaloid.
Documentation: No personal-carry or import route; trafficking of the alkaloid carries death exposure.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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CBD

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt, and named. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 3, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الثالث», item 61 is «كانابيديول» «Cannabidiol (CBD)», «2-[1R-3-methyl-6R-(1-methylethenyl)-2-cyclohexen-1-yl]-5-pentyl-1,3-benzenediol», added by Decision 242 of 2026 (Decision 242 PDF page 3, gazette page 11) and in force from 18 August 2026. Cannabidiol itself is a Table 3 substance. A CBD product that is an extract of the cannabis plant is also reached by Table 1 Section 2 item 54 «حشيش (قنب)», which covers «خلاصة نبات القنب أو خلاصة أي جزء منه مثل زيت الحشيش» (PDF page 14, gazette page 15), so which table governs a product turns on whether it is pure cannabidiol or a plant extract. Table 2 item 5 excepts cannabis extract preparations for external use only (PDF page 21, gazette page 22). No exemption for CBD appears in Table 6, the plant parts excepted from the law. The earlier citation of Anti-Narcotics Decree-Law No. 182 of 1960, as amended by Law 122/1989, is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none for pure cannabidiol, which is in Table 3; death for a product that is a cannabis plant extract, which is in Table 1, unless it is a Table 2 preparation for external use only. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». For cannabidiol: Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. For a cannabis extract, in the second section of Table 1: Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. It is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Pure cannabidiol is a Table 3 substance. Table 4 sets prescription maxima for «Cannabis» (600 milligrams), «Cannabis resin» and «Cannabis extract» (200 milligrams each), «Cannabis liquid extract» and «Cannabis tincture» (items 20 to 24, PDF page 31, gazette page 32), which is read as the law contemplating cannabis prescriptions in Egypt; whether any cannabis medicine is dispensed was not read, so the live cell's statement that there is no medical CBD route for the public is carried as a practical observation, not as a rule of the tables, which were read.
Documentation: No documentation legalises CBD, controlled as cannabis; travellers have been arrested despite holding a prescription.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3, through its benzodiazepine class entry. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 4, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الرابع». Item 2 is «البنزوديازيبين وجميع المواد المشتقة منها» «Benzodiazepine and it’s derivatives», printed as a «Drug class» (PDF page 28, gazette page 29), and item 16 is «Triazolobenzodiazepine and it’s derivatives» (PDF page 29, gazette page 30). Clonazepam is not printed by name. It is a 1,4-benzodiazepine, a derivative of benzodiazepine, so item 2 reaches it. That is a reading of the class entry, stated as such. It is not the class member listed in Table 1, which is flunitrazepam. The earlier citation of MoH Decree 301/1976 under Law 182/1960 as Schedule IV is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960 for a Table 3 substance. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Listed in Table 3 of Law 182/1960 and available on prescription; the dispensing rules for Table 3 were not read for this cell, and the live cell's statement that it is dispensed on a controlled register is carried, not re-read.
Documentation: Carry a prescription and keep medicines in original packaging; declare controlled medicines, undocumented benzodiazepines have led to arrests.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(a), «جدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (أ)», item 1 is «كوكايين» «(Cocaine)», printed with the scientific name «Methyl ester of benzoylecgonine» (PDF page 3, gazette page 4). Named. The entry extends to cocaine «وجميع مستحضراته المدرجة أو غير المدرجة في دساتير الأدوية» that contain more than 0.1 per cent of cocaine, and Table 2 item 1, «مستحضرات الكوكايين», excepts cocaine preparations at or below that level (PDF page 21, gazette page 22). The earlier citation of Anti-Narcotics Law 182/1960 Schedule 1 as amended by Law 122/1989 is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». Cocaine is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine. Table 4, the maximum quantity of a narcotic substance on one prescription, sets 100 milligrams for internal use and 400 milligrams for external use of «Cocaine» salts in a compound of no more than 4 per cent (items 16 and 17, PDF page 31, gazette page 32), which is read as the law contemplating medical cocaine in Egypt; no route for a visitor to carry it was read.
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3, not as a Table 1 narcotic substance. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 4, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الرابع». Item 8 is «كودايين» «Codeine», «3-methylmorphine (derivate of morphine, alkaloid contained in opium and poppy straw)» (PDF page 28, gazette page 29). Section 1 of the same table lists codeine derivatives such as «Acetyl dihydrocodeine» and «Nicodicodeine» (PDF page 22, gazette page 23). Named. Article 1 of Law 182/1960 confines narcotic substances to Table 1, so the earlier statement that the death penalty attaches to codeine is not borne out. The earlier citation of Anti-Narcotics Law 182/1960 with Law 122/1989 as a narcotic-table substance is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960 for a Table 3 substance. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Listed in Table 3 of Law 182/1960 and available on prescription; the dispensing rules for Table 3 were not read for this cell, and the live cell's statement that it is dispensed on a controlled register is carried, not re-read.
Documentation: Prior Ministry of Health approval is required to import controlled narcotics - carry a prescription and original packaging; the 1960 law applies equally to foreigners.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled as cocaine, a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(a), «جدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (أ)», item 1 is «كوكايين» «(Cocaine)», «Methyl ester of benzoylecgonine» (PDF page 3, gazette page 4). Crack is cocaine in its base form and has no entry of its own; the item names the substance itself, so the form does not take it outside the entry. The Table 2 exception for preparations at or below 0.1 per cent cocaine does not describe crack. The earlier citation of Anti-Narcotics Law 182/1960 Schedule 1 is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». Cocaine, in any form, is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Crack, the base form, is not a medicinal preparation. Table 4, the maximum quantity of a narcotic substance on one prescription, sets 100 milligrams for internal use and 400 milligrams for external use of «Cocaine» salts in a compound of no more than 4 per cent (items 16 and 17, PDF page 31, gazette page 32), which is read as the law contemplating medical cocaine in Egypt, for salts in a compound and not for the base; no route for a visitor was read.
Documentation: No prescription documentation exists for crack/freebase cocaine.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in Egypt's Table 1, by two readings of the table, neither of which prints the name. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances. Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها»: item 95 is «تتراهيدروكانابينول» «Tetrahydrocannabinol», «tetrahydrocannabinol» (PDF page 18, gazette page 19), and the heading extends every entry to «وأيسومراتها», its isomers. Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them: group 7 is «Classical Cannabinoids Dibenzopyran», with DMHP as its example (PDF page 5, gazette page 6). Delta-8-THC is a positional isomer of tetrahydrocannabinol, which brings it under item 95, and it is a dibenzopyran classical cannabinoid, which brings it under group 7 as a derived substance. The group 7 exclusion removes only a substance listed in another table, and item 95 is in the same table. Both are readings, stated as such, and which section governs decides the trafficking tier. The earlier citation of Anti-Narcotics Law 182/1960 and the 2019 amendment is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since. The tables are annexed to Law 182/1960.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. On the item 95 reading, delta-8-THC is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. On the group 7 reading it would instead be in the first section, where Article 34's second paragraph makes trafficking death without the life alternative and Article 38(2) makes non trade possession life imprisonment. The table does not settle which reading a court applies. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: No recognised medical use; delta-8-THC is not a prescribable medicine.
Documentation: No lawful personal import of a controlled tetrahydrocannabinol.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Diazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3, through its benzodiazepine class entry. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 4, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الرابع». Item 2 is «البنزوديازيبين وجميع المواد المشتقة منها» «Benzodiazepine and it’s derivatives», printed as a «Drug class» (PDF page 28, gazette page 29), and item 16 is «Triazolobenzodiazepine and it’s derivatives» (PDF page 29, gazette page 30). Diazepam is not printed by name. It is a 1,4-benzodiazepine, a derivative of benzodiazepine, so item 2 reaches it. That is a reading of the class entry, stated as such. It is not the class member listed in Table 1, which is flunitrazepam. The earlier citation of MoH Decree 301/1976 under Law 182/1960 as Schedule IV is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960 for a Table 3 substance. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Listed in Table 3 of Law 182/1960 and available on prescription; the dispensing rules for Table 3 were not read for this cell, and the live cell's statement that it is dispensed on a controlled register is carried, not re-read.
Documentation: Carry a prescription and keep medicines in original packaging; declare controlled medicines, undocumented benzodiazepines have led to arrests.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

Diazepam in Egypt, full detail →

DMT

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the second section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها». Item 99 is «DMT», «3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indole» (PDF page 18, gazette page 19), beside «DET» at item 98. Named. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. DMT is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

DMT in Egypt, full detail →

DOM

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 12, «Phenethylamine», as replaced by Decision 242 (Decision 242 PDF page 2, gazette page 10), lists among its examples «Amphetamine», «Methamphetamine», «STP, DOM», «MESCALINE», «MDMA», «TMA», «DOET», 2C-B and «Benzphetamine», with 4-MTA. Decision 242 then excludes, «وفيما عدا المواد المشتقة الآتية», «Venlafaxine», «Desvenlafaxine», «Carbidopa», «Levodopa», «Foscarbidopa», «Melevodopa» and «Foslevodopa» (Decision 242 PDF page 3, gazette page 11). «STP, DOM» is printed as an example of the group, with the scientific name «2,5-dimethoxy- α,4 - dimethylphenethylamine». The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». DOM is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

DOM in Egypt, full detail →

DXM

Legal status: Not a narcotic substance in Egypt, by the table's own words, as at 3 October 2026. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها»: item 75, «Levomethorphan», carries the note «ولا تُعد الديكستروميثورفان» «(Dextromethorphan)» «مادة مخدرة», that dextromethorphan is not counted a narcotic substance (PDF page 16, gazette page 17), and item 61, «Racemethorphan», carries the same note (PDF page 15, gazette page 16). Dextromethorphan is not printed in Table 3 either, on the page images of its four sections. Article 1 of Law 182/1960 confines narcotic substances to Table 1, so the law's penalty articles do not reach it. Pharmacy Law 127/1955, which governs medicines, was not read for this cell. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Decision 44 says in terms that dextromethorphan is not a narcotic substance, and it is not in Table 3, so none of Articles 33 to 45 of Law 182/1960 reaches it. The racemate and the laevo isomer are different: «Racemethorphan» and «Levomethorphan» are Table 1 Section 2 items 61 and 75, and the death penalty articles reach them. Rules on carrying a cough medicine under Pharmacy Law 127/1955 were not read. The template text this cell carried before is superseded: it cited Act 440/2018 for synthetic cannabinoids, which Decision 44's replacement of every table overtook, and gave Article 38(1) a band of three to ten years, where the article sets aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. The death penalty articles of Law 182/1960 are Article 33 and Article 34, and they reach only what the tables list. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 3, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الثالث». Item 18 is «إيفيدرين» «Ephedrine» (PDF page 24, gazette page 25), beside «Pseudoephedrine» at item 20. Named. It is a listed Table 3 substance, not only a precursor. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law 182/1960 as amended 122/1989 is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since. The live cell recorded ephedrine as a 1988 Convention Table I precursor. Decision 44's preamble cites the 1988 Convention, and Section 3 lists ephedrine beside «Safrol» and «Phenylacetone»; the Convention itself was not read for this cell.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960 for a Table 3 substance. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Also a pharmacy/prescription decongestant-bronchodilator medicine subject to sales limits; carry documentation for a personal supply.
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Etizolam

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3, not as a Table 1 narcotic substance. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 4, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الرابع», whose heading covers the listed substances «وأملاحها ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها». Item 14 is «Etizolam», «4-(2-Chlorophenyl)-2-ethyl-9-methyl-6H-thieno[3,2-f][1,2,4]triazolo[4,3a][1,4]diazepine» (PDF page 28, gazette page 29). Named, separately from the benzodiazepine class entry at item 2. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960 for a Table 3 substance. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 17, «فينتانيل» «Fentanyl», prints «Fentanyl», «1-phenethyl-4-N-propionylanilinopiperidine», as its first example, with «alpha - methylfentanyl», «para-fluorofentanyl» and «3- Methylfentanyl» (PDF page 8, gazette page 9) and «Cyclopropylfentanyl», «Carfentanil» and «Ocfentanil» among others (PDF page 9, gazette page 10). Named as an example of the group. The fentanyl precursors «Norfentanyl», «(ANPP)» and «(NPP)» are in Table 3 Section 3, items 46, 36 and 39, and «Remifentanil» is Table 1 Section 2 item 115; none of these is fentanyl itself. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». Fentanyl is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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GBL

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3, not as a Table 1 narcotic substance. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 3, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الثالث», whose heading covers the listed substances «وأملاحها ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها». Item 47 is «Gama Butyrolactone (GBL)», «Oxolan-2-one» (PDF page 26, gazette page 27). Named, beside «1,4 - Butanediol (BD)» at item 48. GHB, which the body makes from it, is Table 1 Section 2 item 134, so the substance taken and the substance it becomes sit in different tables. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960 for a Table 3 substance. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the second section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها». Item 134 is «(GHB)», gamma hydroxybutyric acid (PDF page 21, gazette page 22). Named. Its precursors are in the lighter table: «Gama Butyrolactone (GBL)» and «1,4 - Butanediol (BD)» are Table 3 Section 3 items 47 and 48 (PDF page 26, gazette page 27). The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. GHB is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(a), «جدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (أ)», item 2 is «هيروين» «(Heroin)», «Diacetylmorphine (derivative of morphine)» (PDF page 3, gazette page 4). Named. The entry reaches heroin «بذاته أو مخلوطًا أو مخففًا في أي مادة». The earlier citation of Anti-Narcotics Law 182/1960 Schedule 1 as amended by Law 122/1989 is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». Heroin is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine. Table 4, the maximum quantity of a narcotic substance on one prescription, sets 20 milligrams for «Di- acetyl morphine» (PDF page 29, gazette page 30), which is read as the law contemplating its prescription in Egypt; no route for a visitor to carry it was read.
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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HHC

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1, by group and not by name, with a Section 2 alternative. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 7, «القنبيات التقليدية - قنب ثنائي بنزوبيران» «Classical Cannabinoids Dibenzopyran», prints «DMHP», «3-(1,2-dimethylheptyl)-7,8,9,10-tetrahydro-6,6,9-trimethyl-6Hdibenzo[b,d]pyran-1-ol», as its example (PDF page 5, gazette page 6). HHC, hexahydrocannabinol, 6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6a,7,8,9,10,10a-hexahydro-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pyran-1-ol, is not printed. It is a dibenzopyran classical cannabinoid, so the group's derivative clause reaches it. It has two more hydrogen atoms than «Tetrahydrocannabinol», item 95, and so is not an isomer of it, and that entry's isomer clause does not reach it. That is a reading of the group's terms, stated as such. Against the first section, the two nearest printed relatives sit in the second: «Tetrahydrocannabinol», item 95, and «Parahexyl», item 97, «3-hexyl-7,8,9,10-tetrahydro-6,6,9-trimethyl-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pyran-1-ol», the hexyl homologue of THC (PDF page 18, gazette page 19). The group 7 exclusion removes only a substance listed in another table, so those entries do not take it out of group 7, but a court reading «نظائرها» in the Section 2 heading as analogues could place it beside them. Group 7's derivative clause is the printed route, so the first section is stated as the reading and the second as the alternative. This batch applies one rule throughout: a printed placement governs, and the undefined heading word «نظائرها» decides a row only where nothing in the tables places it. The heading excludes a substance listed in another table: none of Tables 2, 3, 5 and 6 names it, on their page images. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». On the group 7 reading, HHC is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. On the Section 2 alternative, beside «Parahexyl», Article 34 would allow death or life imprisonment instead, and Article 38(2) would not apply. Both tiers include death; the table does not settle which a court applies. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the second section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها». Item 18 is «هيدروكودون» «Hydrocodone», «dihydrocodeinone (derivative of morphine)» (PDF page 11, gazette page 12). Named. The earlier citation of Anti-Narcotics Law 182/1960 with Law 122/1989 is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. Hydrocodone is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Dispensed only as a controlled narcotic under prescription; there is no ordinary retail supply.
Documentation: Prior Ministry of Health approval is required to import controlled narcotics; carry a prescription and keep medicines in original packaging, undocumented opioids have led to arrests.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Ketamine

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3, not as a Table 1 narcotic substance. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 4, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الرابع», whose heading covers the listed substances «وأملاحها ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها». Item 3 is «كيتامين» «Ketamine», «(RS)-2-(2-Chlorophenyl)-2 -(methylamino)cyclohexanone» (PDF page 28, gazette page 29). Named. Its fluoro analogue «2-Fluorodeschloroketamine» is printed separately at item 19. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960 for a Table 3 substance. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Khat

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt as a plant whose cultivation is prohibited. «الجدول رقم (٥) - النباتات الممنوع زراعتها», Table 5, the plants whose cultivation is prohibited, item 5 is «قات (Khat) بجميع أصنافه ومسمياته» (PDF page 33, gazette page 34). Named as a plant. Its alkaloids are listed separately: «Cathinone» at Table 1 Section 2 item 109 and «Cathine» at Table 3 Section 3 item 31. The earlier citation of Law 182/1960 for cathinone and cathine is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death for cultivating or trading the plant. Khat is a Table 5 plant, so the earlier statement that the leaf draws imprisonment and not execution is not borne out. Article 33(c) punishes cultivating any Table 5 plant, or exporting, importing, possessing, acquiring, buying, selling, delivering or transporting it at any stage of growth, or its seeds, with intent to trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes cultivating, possessing or buying a Table 5 plant for personal use by a term of hard labour and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds, and Article 38(1) punishes it without intent to trade or to use by a term of hard labour and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 42 orders confiscation of the plants, their seeds and land the offender owns. Article 37 sets the personal use tier for a Table 5 plant. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Khat is traditional plant material with no recognised medical use and no lawful prescription route.
Documentation: No lawful personal-import route; leaf caught via its scheduled cathinone content and seized at the border.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Kratom

Legal status: Not listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Kratom, the leaf of Mitragyna speciosa, is not among the five plants of Table 5, which are cannabis, the opium poppy, every Papaver species, coca and khat (PDF page 33, gazette page 34), and neither of its main alkaloids, mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, is printed in Tables 1 to 3, on the page images of all six tables of Decision 44 and of Decision 242, read entry by entry, as at 3 October 2026, with two English OCR passes and one Arabic OCR pass over every page as a second check. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960. Its penalty articles, from Article 33 and Article 34, which carry death, to Article 45, attach to the substances in Tables 1 and 3 and the plants in Table 5, and neither the leaf nor its alkaloids is in them. Customs, pharmacy and other laws were not read for this cell. The template text this cell carried before is superseded: it cited Act 440/2018 for synthetic cannabinoids, which Decision 44's replacement of every table overtook, and gave Article 38(1) a band of three to ten years, where the article sets aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. The death penalty articles of Law 182/1960 are Article 33 and Article 34, and they reach only what the tables list. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3, through its benzodiazepine class entry. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 4, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الرابع». Item 2 is «البنزوديازيبين وجميع المواد المشتقة منها» «Benzodiazepine and it’s derivatives», printed as a «Drug class» (PDF page 28, gazette page 29), and item 16 is «Triazolobenzodiazepine and it’s derivatives» (PDF page 29, gazette page 30). Lorazepam is not printed by name. It is a 1,4-benzodiazepine, a derivative of benzodiazepine, so item 2 reaches it. That is a reading of the class entry, stated as such. It is not the class member listed in Table 1, which is flunitrazepam. The earlier citation of MoH Decree 301/1976 under Law 182/1960 as Schedule IV is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960 for a Table 3 substance. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Listed in Table 3 of Law 182/1960 and available on prescription; the dispensing rules for Table 3 were not read for this cell, and the live cell's statement that it is dispensed on a controlled register is carried, not re-read.
Documentation: Carry a prescription and keep medicines in original packaging; declare controlled medicines, undocumented benzodiazepines have led to arrests.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the second section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها». Item 71 is «(+)-Lysergide», «9,10-didehydro-N,N-diethyl-6-methylergoline-8β-carboxamide» (PDF page 16, gazette page 17). Named. Several lysergamides are printed beside it, «ALD -52» and «AL-LAD» at items 127 and 128 (PDF page 20, gazette page 21) and «1P - LSD» to «1V- LSD» at items 129 to 133 (PDF page 21, gazette page 22). The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. LSD is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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MDA

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 12, «فينيثيل أمين» «Phenethylamine», lists «Tenamphetamine», «α-methyl-3,4-(methylenedioxy)phenethylamine», which is MDA (PDF page 6, gazette page 7). Named, under its international non-proprietary name. Decision 242's replacement text for item 12, read by OCR of its scan, still names this substance. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law 182/1960 tables is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». MDA is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Scheduled narcotic with no recognised medical use; no lawful prescription route.
Documentation: No lawful personal import; trafficking death-eligible in law.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

MDA in Egypt, full detail →

MDMA

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 12, «Phenethylamine», as replaced by Decision 242 (Decision 242 PDF page 2, gazette page 10), lists among its examples «Amphetamine», «Methamphetamine», «STP, DOM», «MESCALINE», «MDMA», «TMA», «DOET», 2C-B and «Benzphetamine», with 4-MTA. Decision 242 then excludes, «وفيما عدا المواد المشتقة الآتية», «Venlafaxine», «Desvenlafaxine», «Carbidopa», «Levodopa», «Foscarbidopa», «Melevodopa» and «Foslevodopa» (Decision 242 PDF page 3, gazette page 11). «MDMA» is printed as an example of the group, with the scientific name «(±)-N, α -dimethyl-3,4- (methylenedioxy)phenethylamine». The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». MDMA is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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MDPV

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 15, «بيروفاليرون» «Pyrovalerone», lists «MDPV», «1-(1,3-Benzodioxol-5-yl)-2-(pyrrolidin-1-yl) pentan-1-one», with «α-PVP» (PDF page 8, gazette page 9). Named as an example of the group. The earlier citation of Anti-Narcotics Law 182 of 1960 and the 2019 amendment is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». MDPV is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: MDPV has no recognised medical use and no lawful prescription route in Egypt.
Documentation: No lawful personal-import route for a controlled substance; do not carry.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Memantine

Legal status: Not listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Memantine, an adamantane medicine for dementia, is not printed on the page images of all six tables of Decision 44 and of Decision 242, read entry by entry, as at 3 October 2026, with two English OCR passes and one Arabic OCR pass over every page as a second check. Table 1 Section 1(b) group 14, «Adamantoyl Indole», is a synthetic cannabinoid scaffold whose examples are «5F-APINACA» and «APICA» (PDF page 8, gazette page 9); memantine is an adamantane amine with no indole, so the group does not reach it. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960. Its penalty articles, from Article 33 and Article 34, which carry death, to Article 45, attach to the substances in Tables 1 and 3 and the plants in Table 5, and memantine is in none of them. Customs, pharmacy and other laws were not read for this cell. The template text this cell carried before is superseded: it cited Act 440/2018 for synthetic cannabinoids, which Decision 44's replacement of every table overtook, and gave Article 38(1) a band of three to ten years, where the article sets aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. The death penalty articles of Law 182/1960 are Article 33 and Article 34, and they reach only what the tables list. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1, by group and not by name. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 6, «الكاثينون المستبدل» «Substituted Cathinone», lists «Methcathinone», «Methyl Ethcathinone», «Ethcathinone» and «C4-Chloroethcathinone» (PDF page 5, gazette page 6). Mephedrone, 4-methylmethcathinone, is not printed. It is methcathinone with a methyl group on the ring, a substituted cathinone, and the section heading reaches the substances derived from each group. That is a reading of the group's terms, stated as such. The heading excludes a substance listed in another table: none of the other tables names it, on the page images of Tables 2, 3 and 5 and an OCR search of all 34 pages. The earlier citation of Law 182/1960 as amended is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». Mephedrone is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Controlled psychotropic with no recognised medical use and no lawful prescription route.
Documentation: No personal-carry or import route; trafficking carries death exposure.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 12, «Phenethylamine», as replaced by Decision 242 (Decision 242 PDF page 2, gazette page 10), lists among its examples «Amphetamine», «Methamphetamine», «STP, DOM», «MESCALINE», «MDMA», «TMA», «DOET», 2C-B and «Benzphetamine», with 4-MTA. Decision 242 then excludes, «وفيما عدا المواد المشتقة الآتية», «Venlafaxine», «Desvenlafaxine», «Carbidopa», «Levodopa», «Foscarbidopa», «Melevodopa» and «Foslevodopa» (Decision 242 PDF page 3, gazette page 11). «MESCALINE» is printed as an example of the group, with the scientific name «3,4,5 -trimethoxyphenethylamine». The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». Mescaline is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the second section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها». Item 84 is «ميثادون» «Methadone», «6-dimethylamino-4,4-diphenyl-3-heptanone» (PDF page 17, gazette page 18). Named. The earlier citation of Law 182/1960 with Law 122/1989 is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since. The tables are annexed to Law 182/1960.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. Methadone is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Prescribed as a controlled narcotic on a controlled register (OST access limited).
Documentation: Prior MoH approval is required to import controlled narcotics; carry a prescription and keep medicines in original packaging, undocumented opioids have led to arrests.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 12, «Phenethylamine», as replaced by Decision 242 (Decision 242 PDF page 2, gazette page 10), lists among its examples «Amphetamine», «Methamphetamine», «STP, DOM», «MESCALINE», «MDMA», «TMA», «DOET», 2C-B and «Benzphetamine», with 4-MTA. Decision 242 then excludes, «وفيما عدا المواد المشتقة الآتية», «Venlafaxine», «Desvenlafaxine», «Carbidopa», «Levodopa», «Foscarbidopa», «Melevodopa» and «Foslevodopa» (Decision 242 PDF page 3, gazette page 11). «Methamphetamine» is printed as an example of the group, with the scientific name «(+)-(S)-N,α-dimethylphenethylamine». Its laevo form is printed separately as «Levomethamphetamine». The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». Methamphetamine is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine. Table 4, «الحد الأقصى لكميات الجواهر المخدرة الذي لا يجوز تجاوزه في وصفة طبية واحدة», sets a per prescription maximum of 5 ampoules and of 25 tablets of «Methamphetamine» (items 36 and 37, PDF page 32, gazette page 33), which is read as the law contemplating its prescription in Egypt; no route for a visitor to carry it was read.
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the second section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها». Item 86 is «Methaqualone», «2-methyl-3-(2-methylphenyl) quinazolin-4-one» (PDF page 17, gazette page 18). Named. «Mecloqualone» is item 100 in the same section. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. Methaqualone is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Methylone

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1, by group and not by name. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 6, «الكاثينون المستبدل» «Substituted Cathinone», lists «Methcathinone», «Methyl Ethcathinone», «Ethcathinone» and «C4-Chloroethcathinone» (PDF page 5, gazette page 6). Methylone, 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylcathinone, is not printed. It is methcathinone with a methylenedioxy ring, a substituted cathinone, and the section heading reaches the substances derived from each group. That is a reading of the group's terms, stated as such. Article 1 bis, added by Law 134/2019, treats synthetic substances in Table 1 as narcotic substances. The heading excludes a substance listed in another table: none of the other tables names it, on the page images of Tables 2, 3 and 5 and an OCR search of all 34 pages. The earlier citation of Anti-Narcotics Law 182 of 1960 and the 2019 amendment is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». Methylone is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: No recognised medical use; no lawful prescription route.
Documentation: No lawful personal import.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the second section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها». Item 87 is «Methylphenidate», «methyl 2-phenyl-2-piperidin-2-ylacetate» (PDF page 17, gazette page 18). Named. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. Methylphenidate is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine. Table 4, «الحد الأقصى لكميات الجواهر المخدرة الذي لا يجوز تجاوزه في وصفة طبية واحدة», sets a per prescription maximum of 5 ampoules and of 30 tablets of «Methylphenidate» (items 33 and 34, PDF page 32, gazette page 33), which is read as the law contemplating its prescription in Egypt; no route for a visitor to carry it was read.
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Mitragynine

Legal status: Not listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Mitragynine, the principal alkaloid of kratom, is not printed in Tables 1 to 3, on the page images of all six tables of Decision 44 and of Decision 242, read entry by entry, as at 3 October 2026, with two English OCR passes and one Arabic OCR pass over every page as a second check, and no listed group in Table 1 Section 1(b), whose groups are synthetic cannabinoid, cathinone, phenethylamine, pyrovalerone, nitazene and fentanyl scaffolds with one classical cannabinoid group, is a corynanthe indole alkaloid scaffold. Its source plant, Mitragyna speciosa, is not in Table 5. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960. Its penalty articles, from Article 33 and Article 34, which carry death, to Article 45, attach to the substances in Tables 1 and 3 and the plants in Table 5, and mitragynine is in none of them. Customs, pharmacy and other laws were not read for this cell. The template text this cell carried before is superseded: it cited Act 440/2018 for synthetic cannabinoids, which Decision 44's replacement of every table overtook, and gave Article 38(1) a band of three to ten years, where the article sets aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. The death penalty articles of Law 182/1960 are Article 33 and Article 34, and they reach only what the tables list. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Modafinil

Legal status: Not listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026, under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, issue 179 of 17 August 2026. Modafinil was searched on the page images of all six tables and in two English OCR passes and one Arabic OCR pass over every page of both decisions, under modafinil, its Arabic spelling, adrafinil and armodafinil, with no hit. Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The earlier cell's statement that it is a prescription only registered pharmaceutical, sold as Modasomil, is carried and was not re-read; registration sits under Pharmacy Law 127/1955, which was not read for this cell. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 182/1960's penalty articles, from Article 33 and Article 34, which carry death, to Article 45, attach to the substances in Tables 1 and 3 and the plants in Table 5, and modafinil is in none of them. The earlier cell's statement that unlicensed possession or sale is a pharmacy or health law offence is carried, not re-read; those laws were not read for this cell. The UNODC reproduction of Law 122/1989 the earlier cell cited is superseded as a table source, because Decision 44 replaced every table.
If prescribed / medical: Carry the prescription. Modafinil is not in the narcotic tables, so the prescription maxima of Table 4 do not apply to it; Egypt's rules for importing a registered medicine were not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the medicine in its original packaging, and confirm the position with the Egyptian Drug Authority or an Egyptian consulate before travel. The earlier text of this field described a scheme of Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines that Decision 44 replaced; its statements are carried as the earlier cell's and were not re-read: that amphetamine and dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin, Concerta) and methadone cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; that tramadol is tightly controlled; that codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried with a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2 to 3 month maximum supply and a customs declaration; and that a traveller received a 3 year sentence in 2017 for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, issue 179 of 17 August 2026, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf and https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf on 3 October 2026 · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · carried from the earlier cell: https://www.incb.org/incb/en/psychotropics/green-list.html · Law No. 122 of 1989 amending Decree-Law No. 182 of 1960, as published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime · Updated October 4, 2026

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Morphine

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the second section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها». Item 81 is «مورفين» «Morphine», «the principal alkaloid of opium and of opium poppy», with its preparations containing more than 0.2 per cent of morphine (PDF page 17, gazette page 18). Named. Table 2 item 4, «مستحضرات الأفيون والمورفين», excepts opium and morphine preparations at or below 0.2 per cent morphine that cannot readily be extracted (PDF page 21, gazette page 22). The earlier citation of Anti-Narcotics Law 182/1960 Schedule 1 as amended by Law 122/1989 is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since. The tables are annexed to Law 182/1960.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. Morphine is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Available on prescription as a Schedule 1 narcotic for severe and cancer pain under strict records.
Documentation: TRAVELLER TRAP, prior Ministry of Health approval is required to import controlled narcotics; carry a prescription and original packaging (the 1960 law applies equally to foreigners).

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Nicotine

Legal status: Not listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Nicotine is not printed on the page images of all six tables of Decision 44 and of Decision 242, read entry by entry, as at 3 October 2026, with two English OCR passes and one Arabic OCR pass over every page as a second check. The only near matches are the morphine and codeine nicotinoyl esters, «Nicomorphine» at Table 1 Section 2 item 94 and nicocodeine and nicodicodeine in Table 3, which are opioids and not nicotine. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960. Its penalty articles, from Article 33 and Article 34, which carry death, to Article 45, attach to the substances in Tables 1 and 3 and the plants in Table 5, and nicotine is in none of them. Customs, pharmacy and other laws were not read for this cell. The template text this cell carried before is superseded: it cited Act 440/2018 for synthetic cannabinoids, which Decision 44's replacement of every table overtook, and gave Article 38(1) a band of three to ten years, where the article sets aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. The death penalty articles of Law 182/1960 are Article 33 and Article 34, and they reach only what the tables list. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3, with a Table 1 Section 2 alternative. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 4, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الرابع», whose heading covers the listed substances «وأملاحها ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها». Item 2 is «البنزوديازيبين وجميع المواد المشتقة منها» «Benzodiazepine and it’s derivatives», printed as a «Drug class» (PDF page 28, gazette page 29). Nimetazepam is not printed by name. It is a 1,4-benzodiazepine, a derivative of benzodiazepine, so item 2 reaches it. That is a reading of the class entry, stated as such. Nimetazepam is flunitrazepam without its fluorine atom, and «Flunitrazepam» is the one benzodiazepine printed in Table 1, at Section 2 item 113 (PDF page 19, gazette page 20). A court reading «نظائرها» in the Section 2 heading as analogues could place nimetazepam there instead. The printed class entry, item 2, is the placement the tables give, so Table 3 is stated as the answer and Section 2 as the alternative. This batch applies one rule throughout: a printed placement governs, and the undefined heading word «نظائرها» decides a row only where nothing in the tables places it. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under the Table 3 placement stated here; death if a court instead reads nimetazepam as an analogue of flunitrazepam in Table 1 Section 2, where Article 34 allows death or life imprisonment for trafficking. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». For Table 3: Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Nitrous Oxide

Legal status: Not listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Nitrous oxide is not printed on the page images of all six tables of Decision 44 and of Decision 242, read entry by entry, as at 3 October 2026, with two English OCR passes and one Arabic OCR pass over every page as a second check. Decision 242's additions of 18 August 2026 brought in four alkyl nitrites, Table 3 Section 3 items 57 to 60, and nitrous oxide is not a nitrite. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960. Its penalty articles, from Article 33 and Article 34, which carry death, to Article 45, attach to the substances in Tables 1 and 3 and the plants in Table 5, and nitrous oxide is in none of them. Customs, pharmacy and other laws were not read for this cell. The template text this cell carried before is superseded: it cited Act 440/2018 for synthetic cannabinoids, which Decision 44's replacement of every table overtook, and gave Article 38(1) a band of three to ten years, where the article sets aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. The death penalty articles of Law 182/1960 are Article 33 and Article 34, and they reach only what the tables list. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Opium

Legal status: Controlled twice in Egypt: as a narcotic substance in the second section of Table 1, and through the plant whose cultivation is prohibited. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها», item 9 is «أفيون» «OPIUM», «the coagulated juice of the opium poppy (plant species Papaver somniferum L.)», and «وتشمل: الأفيون الخام والأفيون الطبى والأفيون المحضر بجميع مسمياتها» (PDF page 10, gazette page 11). «الجدول رقم (٥) - النباتات الممنوع زراعتها», Table 5, the plants whose cultivation is prohibited, item 2 is «Papaver Somniferum» «بجميع أصنافه ومسمياته» and item 3 is «(All Papaver Species)» (PDF page 33, gazette page 34). Named. The entry reaches opium preparations containing more than 0.2 per cent of morphine, and Table 2 item 4, «مستحضرات الأفيون والمورفين», excepts those at or below it that are compounded with one or more other ingredients so that the drug cannot be recovered by readily available means (PDF page 21, gazette page 22). Table 6 excepts poppy seeds «المحموسة حمسًا يكفل عدم إنباتها» and scored poppy heads free of seeds (PDF page 34, gazette page 35). The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. Opium is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. As a Table 5 plant, the poppy: Article 33(c) punishes cultivating any Table 5 plant, or exporting, importing, possessing, acquiring, buying, selling, delivering or transporting it at any stage of growth, or its seeds, with intent to trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes cultivating, possessing or buying a Table 5 plant for personal use by a term of hard labour and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds, and Article 38(1) punishes it without intent to trade or to use by a term of hard labour and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 42 orders confiscation of the plants, their seeds and land the offender owns. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine. Table 4, the maximum quantity of a narcotic substance on one prescription, sets 600 milligrams for «Opium» (item 1, PDF page 29, gazette page 30), which is read as the law contemplating opium prescriptions in Egypt; no route for a visitor to carry it was read.
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the second section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها». Item 6 is «أوكسيكودون» «Oxycodone», «14-hydroxydihydrocodeinone (Derivative of morphine)» (PDF page 10, gazette page 11). Named. The earlier citation of Anti-Narcotics Law 182/1960 as amended by Law 122/1989 is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since. The tables are annexed to Law 182/1960.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. Oxycodone is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Dispensed as a controlled narcotic on a controlled-prescription register.
Documentation: TRAVELLER TRAP: prior Ministry of Health approval is required to import controlled narcotics, carry a prescription and original packaging; the 1960 law applies equally to foreigners.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3, not as a Table 1 narcotic substance. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 3, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الثالث», whose heading covers the listed substances «وأملاحها ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها». Item 8 is «Phencyclidine», «1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)piperidine» (PDF page 23, gazette page 24). Named. Two of its analogues sit in the heavier table, «Tenocyclidine» at Table 1 Section 2 item 101 and «3- Methoxyphencyclidine» at item 124, but phencyclidine itself is in Table 3. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960 for a Table 3 substance. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Pink cocaine is not the name of a single chemical substance but a variable street mixture, and Egypt's tables follow each constituent. That is the settled treatment of this label rather than an unfinished answer. In the analyses reported of powders sold under the name, the usual constituents are ketamine, which is «Ketamine» at «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 4 item 3 (PDF page 28, gazette page 29), and MDMA and methamphetamine, which are «MDMA» and «Methamphetamine» in group 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b) (Decision 242 PDF page 2, gazette page 10); cocaine, when present, is «كوكايين» «(Cocaine)» at Table 1 Section 1(a) item 1 (PDF page 3, gazette page 4), and 2C-B is in group 12. The label is not «U-47700 (Pink Heroin)», an opioid printed at Table 1 Section 2 item 120 (PDF page 20, gazette page 21) under a similar street name. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death for a sample containing MDMA, methamphetamine, 2C-B or cocaine, which are in the first section of Table 1; none under Law 182/1960 for one containing only ketamine, which is in Table 3. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». For the Table 1 constituents, Article 34's second paragraph makes trafficking death without the life alternative where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)», Article 33 makes unlicensed import or export death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds, Article 38(2) makes possession without intent to trade or to use hard labour for life and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds, and Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. For ketamine alone: Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 8, 2026

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Poppers

Legal status: Poppers is a product label covering a group of alkyl nitrites, not the name of a single chemical substance, and that is the settled treatment of the label here. Egypt now names four of them. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 3, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الثالث», whose heading covers the listed substances «وأملاحها ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها», items 57 to 60, added by Decision 242 of 2026 and in force from 18 August 2026, are «Amyl nitrite», «Isoamyl nitrite», «Isopropyl nitrite» and «Isobutyl nitrite» (Decision 242 PDF page 3, gazette page 11). A bottle containing one of those is a Table 3 substance; another alkyl nitrite would have to be checked against the table rather than assumed to follow, and whether the section heading's undefined word «نظائرها» reaches it as an analogue of a named nitrite is not settled by the tables. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960 for the four named nitrites, which are in Table 3. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 4, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الرابع». Item 13 is «بريجابالين» «Pregabalin», «(3S)-3-(aminomethyl)-5 - methylhexanoic acid» (PDF page 28, gazette page 29). Named. The earlier citation of Ministry of Health Decree No. 475 of 2019, which added it to paragraph (D) of Schedule No. 3, is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since. The governing statute is the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960. The tables are annexed to Law 182/1960.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960 for a Table 3 substance. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Dispensed only against an authorised physician's prescription, which the pharmacy retains for inspection by the Ministry of Health.
Documentation: Personal-use import requires a prescription or authorisation; the 1960 law applies equally to foreigners, carry documentation and keep pregabalin in original packaging.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the second section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها». Item 27 is «Psilocybin», «3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indol-4-yl dihydrogen phosphate» (PDF page 12, gazette page 13), and item 96 is «Psilocin, psilotsin» (PDF page 18, gazette page 19). Named, both the substance and its active metabolite. The mushrooms that contain them are not in Table 5, which lists only cannabis, the opium poppy and every Papaver species, coca and khat, so growing them is not the Article 33(c) plant offence. Whether a fresh or dried mushroom is «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing psilocybin, under the section heading, is a reading the table does not settle. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. Psilocybin is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Quetiapine

Legal status: Not listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Quetiapine, an antipsychotic, is not printed on the page images of all six tables of Decision 44 and of Decision 242, read entry by entry, as at 3 October 2026, with two English OCR passes and one Arabic OCR pass over every page as a second check. Table 3 Section 4, the section that carries medicines such as «Pregabalin», «Zolpidem» and «Zaleplon», runs to item 19 and does not include it. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960. Its penalty articles, from Article 33 and Article 34, which carry death, to Article 45, attach to the substances in Tables 1 and 3 and the plants in Table 5, and quetiapine is in none of them. Customs, pharmacy and other laws were not read for this cell. The template text this cell carried before is superseded: it cited Act 440/2018 for synthetic cannabinoids, which Decision 44's replacement of every table overtook, and gave Article 38(1) a band of three to ten years, where the article sets aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. The death penalty articles of Law 182/1960 are Article 33 and Article 34, and they reach only what the tables list. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Salvia divinorum

Legal status: Not listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. The plant Salvia divinorum is not among the five plants of Table 5 (PDF page 33, gazette page 34), and its active diterpene, salvinorin A, is not printed in Tables 1 to 3, on the page images of all six tables of Decision 44 and of Decision 242, read entry by entry, as at 3 October 2026, with two English OCR passes and one Arabic OCR pass over every page as a second check. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960. Its penalty articles, from Article 33 and Article 34, which carry death, to Article 45, attach to the substances in Tables 1 and 3 and the plants in Table 5, and neither the plant nor salvinorin A is in them. Customs, pharmacy and other laws were not read for this cell. The template text this cell carried before is superseded: it cited Act 440/2018 for synthetic cannabinoids, which Decision 44's replacement of every table overtook, and gave Article 38(1) a band of three to ten years, where the article sets aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. The death penalty articles of Law 182/1960 are Article 33 and Article 34, and they reach only what the tables list. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Not listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Scopolamine, also called hyoscine, is not printed on the page images of all six tables of Decision 44 and of Decision 242, read entry by entry, as at 3 October 2026, with two English OCR passes and one Arabic OCR pass over every page as a second check, and the plants it comes from, Datura and Brugmansia, are not among the five plants of Table 5. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960. Its penalty articles, from Article 33 and Article 34, which carry death, to Article 45, attach to the substances in Tables 1 and 3 and the plants in Table 5, and scopolamine is in none of them. Customs, pharmacy and other laws were not read for this cell. The template text this cell carried before is superseded: it cited Act 440/2018 for synthetic cannabinoids, which Decision 44's replacement of every table overtook, and gave Article 38(1) a band of three to ten years, where the article sets aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. The death penalty articles of Law 182/1960 are Article 33 and Article 34, and they reach only what the tables list. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Controlled as narcotic substances in Egypt's Table 1, mostly by chemical group in its first section. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Groups 1 «Naphthoylindole» (JWH-018), 2 «Cyclo Hexyl phenol» (CP-47,497), 3 «Indazole Carboxamide» (AB-Fubinaca, 5F-ADB), 4 «Tetramethyl Cyclopropyl Indole» (XLR-11), 5 «Indole Carboxamide» (5F-MDMB-PICA), 7 «Classical Cannabinoids Dibenzopyran», 8 «Naphthylmethylindole», 9 «Naphthoylpyrrole», 10 «Naphthylmethylindene», 11 «Phenylacetylindole», 13 «Quinolinyl Ester» (PB-22) and 14 «Adamantoyl Indole» (APICA) (PDF pages 4 to 8, gazette pages 5 to 9). This is an open class, so the row is answered by group: a product that contains a member or a derivative of one of these groups is reached. Some synthetic cannabinoids are instead printed by name in Section 2, among them «SDB-005» item 118 and «Cumyl-pegaclone» item 126 (PDF page 20, gazette page 21), and a compound on a scaffold that appears in neither place is not answered by this row. Article 1 bis, added by Law 134/2019, treats synthetic substances in Table 1 as narcotic substances. The earlier citation of Decree 440 of 2018 and the 2014 addition to Schedule 1 is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since. The governing statute is the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». A synthetic cannabinoid in these groups is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. A synthetic cannabinoid printed in Section 2 instead, such as «SDB-005» or «Cumyl-pegaclone», carries Article 34's death or life tier rather than the death only tier. The earlier figure of a minimum of one year plus a fine for personal use belongs to Article 39, use in premises prepared for use, not to Article 37. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: These synthetic cannabinoids have no recognised medical use and no lawful prescription route in Egypt.
Documentation: No lawful personal-import route for scheduled synthetic cannabinoids; do not carry.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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THC-P

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1, by group and not by name, with a Section 2 alternative. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 1(b), «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الأول (ب)», whose heading covers «المجموعات الآتية والمواد المشتقة منها، عدا المُدرج منها في جدول آخر», the following groups and the substances derived from them, other than those listed in another table, and «أي مستحضر أو مخلوط أو مستخلص» containing them. Group 7, «القنبيات التقليدية - قنب ثنائي بنزوبيران» «Classical Cannabinoids Dibenzopyran», prints «DMHP», «3-(1,2-dimethylheptyl)-7,8,9,10-tetrahydro-6,6,9-trimethyl-6Hdibenzo[b,d]pyran-1-ol», as its example (PDF page 5, gazette page 6). THC-P, tetrahydrocannabiphorol, the heptyl homologue of tetrahydrocannabinol, is not printed. It is a dibenzopyran classical cannabinoid with a seven carbon side chain, so the group's derivative clause reaches it. Its formula differs from that of «Tetrahydrocannabinol», item 95, so it is not an isomer of it. That is a reading of the group's terms, stated as such. Against the first section, the two nearest printed relatives sit in the second: «Tetrahydrocannabinol», item 95, and «Parahexyl», item 97, «3-hexyl-7,8,9,10-tetrahydro-6,6,9-trimethyl-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pyran-1-ol», the hexyl homologue of THC (PDF page 18, gazette page 19). The group 7 exclusion removes only a substance listed in another table, so those entries do not take it out of group 7, but a court reading «نظائرها» in the Section 2 heading as analogues could place it beside them. Group 7's derivative clause is the printed route, so the first section is stated as the reading and the second as the alternative. This batch applies one rule throughout: a printed placement governs, and the undefined heading word «نظائرها» decides a row only where nothing in the tables places it. The heading excludes a substance listed in another table: none of Tables 2, 3, 5 and 6 names it, on their page images. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine, and its second paragraph makes the penalty death and that fine where «الجوهر المخدر محل الجريمة من الكوكايين أو الهيروين أو أى من المواد الواردة فى القسم الأول من الجدول رقم (١)». On the group 7 reading, THC-P is in the first section, so trafficking it carries death without the life alternative. Decision 44 prints the first section as «القسم الأول (أ)» and «القسم الأول (ب)», and both are read here as the first section the law names. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds, and Article 38(2) raises it to life imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds, doubled for cocaine, heroin and the first section. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. On the Section 2 alternative, beside «Parahexyl», Article 34 would allow death or life imprisonment instead, and Article 38(2) would not apply. Both tiers include death; the table does not settle which a court applies. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Tobacco

Legal status: Not listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. The tobacco plant, Nicotiana, is not among the five plants of Table 5, «قنب», «Papaver Somniferum», «(All Papaver Species)», «Erythroxylum Coca» and «(Khat)» (PDF page 33, gazette page 34), and nicotine is not printed in Tables 1 to 3, on the page images of all six tables of Decision 44 and of Decision 242, read entry by entry, as at 3 October 2026, with two English OCR passes and one Arabic OCR pass over every page as a second check. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960. Its penalty articles, from Article 33 and Article 34, which carry death, to Article 45, attach to the substances in Tables 1 and 3 and the plants in Table 5, and the tobacco plant is in none of them. Customs, pharmacy and other laws were not read for this cell. The template text this cell carried before is superseded: it cited Act 440/2018 for synthetic cannabinoids, which Decision 44's replacement of every table overtook, and gave Article 38(1) a band of three to ten years, where the article sets aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. The death penalty articles of Law 182/1960 are Article 33 and Article 34, and they reach only what the tables list. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Tramadol

Legal status: Controlled as a narcotic substance in the second section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر المخدرة», Table 1, the narcotic substances, Section 2, «الجدول رقم (١) - القسم الثاني», whose heading covers the listed substances «ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها ومستحضراتها وأيسومراتها وستيريوأيسومراتها». Item 117 is «ترامادول» «Tramadol», «2-[(Dimethylamino)methyl]-1-(3-methoxyphenyl) cyclohexanol» (PDF page 20, gazette page 21). Named. It sits in the second section, not the first section that carries the heaviest tier. The earlier citation of Ministry of Health Decree No. 125 of 2012, which first moved tramadol into Table 1, is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since. The tables are annexed to Law 182/1960.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: death. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Under Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989: Article 33 punishes unlicensed import or export, and production or manufacture for trade, by death and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds. Article 34 punishes possession, purchase, sale, delivery or transport with intent to trade by death or life imprisonment and the same fine. Tramadol is in the second section, so the death only case of Article 34 that turns on the substance, cocaine, heroin and the first section, does not apply to it, though the paragraph's other cases still make the penalty death, among them using a person under 21 and offending near a school or place of worship. Article 38(1) punishes possession without intent to trade or to use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 pounds. Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds; for a person proven to be an addict the court may order treatment in a sanatorium instead, though not after an earlier sentence. Article 39 punishes knowing use in premises prepared for use by imprisonment of at least one year and a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. Each of these articles reaches anyone who commits the act and makes no exception for a foreign national, and none of Articles 33 to 39 states a minimum quantity. Law 19/2020 bars conditional release for a conviction under Law 182/1960 other than the Article 37 felony. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Dispensed only as a Schedule I narcotic under prescription/authorisation on a controlled register.
Documentation: Personal-use import requires a prescription or authorisation; the 1960 law applies equally to foreigners, and undocumented tramadol has led to travellers being jailed, carry documentation and keep it in original packaging.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3, through its triazolobenzodiazepine class entry. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 4, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الرابع». Item 2 is «البنزوديازيبين وجميع المواد المشتقة منها» «Benzodiazepine and it’s derivatives», printed as a «Drug class» (PDF page 28, gazette page 29), and item 16 is «Triazolobenzodiazepine and it’s derivatives» (PDF page 29, gazette page 30). Alprazolam is not printed by name. It is a triazolobenzodiazepine, so item 16 reaches it, and item 2 also reaches benzodiazepine derivatives. That is a reading of the class entries, stated as such. The earlier citation of MoH Decree 301/1976 under Law 182/1960 as Schedule IV is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960 for a Table 3 substance. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Listed in Table 3 of Law 182/1960 and available on prescription; the dispensing rules for Table 3 were not read for this cell, and the live cell's statement that it is dispensed on a controlled register is carried, not re-read.
Documentation: Carry a prescription and keep medicines in original packaging; declare controlled medicines, undocumented benzodiazepines have led to arrests.

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Xylazine

Legal status: Not listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Xylazine, a veterinary sedative found as an adulterant in illicit fentanyl, is not printed on the page images of all six tables of Decision 44 and of Decision 242, read entry by entry, as at 3 October 2026, with two English OCR passes and one Arabic OCR pass over every page as a second check. It is not a fentanyl, so group 17 of Table 1 Section 1(b) does not reach it. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960. Its penalty articles, from Article 33 and Article 34, which carry death, to Article 45, attach to the substances in Tables 1 and 3 and the plants in Table 5, and xylazine is in none of them. Customs, pharmacy and other laws were not read for this cell. The template text this cell carried before is superseded: it cited Act 440/2018 for synthetic cannabinoids, which Decision 44's replacement of every table overtook, and gave Article 38(1) a band of three to ten years, where the article sets aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. The death penalty articles of Law 182/1960 are Article 33 and Article 34, and they reach only what the tables list. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

Xylazine in Egypt, full detail →

Zolpidem

Legal status: Controlled in Egypt's Table 3, not as a Table 1 narcotic substance. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 4, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الرابع», whose heading covers the listed substances «وأملاحها ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها». Item 15 is «Zolpidem», «N,N,6-trimethyl-2-p-tolylimidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-3-acetamide» (PDF page 28, gazette page 29). Named, beside «Zaleplon» at item 12. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none under Law 182/1960 for a Table 3 substance. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation: Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)

Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026

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Substance	What we found
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed. 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, is not printed in any of the six tables of Decision...
5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)	Not confirmed. 5-MeO-DMT, 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, is not printed in any of the six tables of Decision 44...
Gabapentin	Not confirmed. Gabapentin is not printed in any of the six tables of Decision 44 or in Decision 242 as at 3 October...
LSA (Morning Glory)	Not confirmed. LSA, ergine or lysergic acid amide, is not printed in any of the six tables of Decision 44 or in...
MXE	Not confirmed. MXE, methoxetamine, is not printed in any of the six tables of Decision 44 or in Decision 242 as at 3...
Peyote	Not confirmed. Peyote may be controlled in Egypt through its mescaline content, a narcotic substance in the first...
Phenibut	Not confirmed. Phenibut, 4-amino-3-phenylbutanoic acid, is not printed in any of the six tables of Decision 44 or in...