Is Ephedrine legal in Oman?

Legal status

Controlled as a precursor. Ephedrine is named in Group IV, Table 1, serial 3 of the annex to the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 67/2026, «إفيدرين | EPHEDRINE | 3», which is the precursor group, not a narcotic or psychotropic table. The Group and Table numbers in this cell are taken from the locator column of the dossier; the serial is the last column of the quoted row.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: only through article 37 and only as the source read states it. The dossier records that article 37(1)(3) of the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 67/2026 reaches a Group IV precursor «only when Article 4 is violated for trafficking», in its English words, with death or life imprisonment and death mandatory for the listed aggravations. The source read does not quote article 4 or give a band for any other conduct involving a Group IV precursor, so none is stated. No quantity threshold is stated.

If prescribed or medical

Ephedrine is a scheduled substance under the 2026 annex. The source read for this cell does not cover the law's licensing provisions, and it sets out no traveller allowance and no route by which a foreign prescription makes holding ephedrine lawful, so none is stated.

Documentation

No document in the source read makes carrying ephedrine into Oman lawful. Ephedrine is a scheduled substance in Group IV, Table 1, serial 3. Where the rule comes from. The law changed in September 2026. Royal Decree 67/2026 was issued on 3 September 2026. Its Article III repeals the Law on Combating Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 17/99, and its Article IV brings the decree, and with it the new law, into force on the day after its publication in the Official Gazette. Decree.om and the dossier this cell was authored from both record that publication as issue 1664 of 6 September 2026, so the law took effect on 7 September 2026. Article II keeps existing regulations and decisions running until replacements issue, «وإلى أن تصدر يستمر العمل باللوائح والقرارات القائمة، بما لا يتعارض مع أحكامه», so far as they do not conflict with its provisions. The decree's own articles were read in the text the Oman News Agency published on 3 September 2026. The attached law and its annex were read only through the verbatim quotations in the dossier dated 20 September 2026, because on 3 October 2026 qanoon.om served a Cloudflare challenge in place of the text, the web archive held no copy, and decree.om carried the decree's Articles I to IV and its Gazette reference but not the attached law, which it said would be uploaded shortly. Article 5 of the law, as that dossier quotes it, provides «يجوز بقرار من الوزير تعديل المجموعات الملحقة بهذا القانون بالحذف أو الإضافة أو تغيير النسب أو الكميات كلما اقتضت الضرورة ذلك», the Minister may by decision amend the annexed groups by deletion, by addition or by changing percentages or quantities whenever necessary. It takes the place of article 4 of the 1999 law, «يجوز بقرار من الوزير تعديل المجموعات الملحقة بهذا القانون بالحذف أو الإضافة أو تغيير النسب كلما اقتضت الظروف ذلك», which gave the same power without the word for quantities and with «الظروف», circumstances, where the 2026 text has «الضرورة», necessity. So a reading of the annex is a reading as of a date, and this one runs to 20 September 2026. Placement for Ephedrine: Group IV, Table 1, serial 3. Under the 1999 law this page recorded: in no table read as ephedrine, Group 2 table 3 serial 4 being cathine, whose other name is (+) norpseudoephedrine, and that is a different substance. The 1999 placements in this cell are this page's earlier reading and are not printed in the quoted extract the dossier carries for this row.

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