Etizolam in Timor-Leste: not individually verified
We have not confirmed that Etizolam specifically is scheduled in Timor-Leste, so this page gives no legal status. Publishing a guess here would be worse than publishing nothing. What we do know is the governing national drug law, below.
- What is on record
- Not confirmed. Etizolam is not named in Table IV or in any other table of Lei 2/2017's Anexo II, as at 25 January 2017, the date the law was published. Table IV is not limited to conventional 1,4-benzodiazepines: item 8, "Brotizolam - 2-bromo-4-(0-clorofenil)-9-metil-6H-tieno[3,2-f]-s-triazolo[4,3-a][1,4]diazepina", and item 18, "Clotiazepam - 5-(2-clorofenil)-7-etil-1,3-di-hidro-1-metil-2H-tieno [2,3-e]-1,4-diazepina-2-ona", are both thienodiazepines, the same class as etizolam, printed Portuguese "tieno" marking the thiophene ring in both. So etizolam's ring system is not itself a reason Table IV could not reach it; the actual reason is narrower: etizolam is simply not named, and Table IV's own closing clause reaches only salts, "Os sais das substâncias indicadas nesta tabela, sempre que a existência de tais sais seja possível" (English: the salts of the substances listed in this table, whenever the existence of such salts is possible), with no isomer or analogue extension of the kind Table II-A carries. So even being chemically close to brotizolam or clotiazepam does not bring etizolam in. Etizolam was placed in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances by a Commission on Narcotic Drugs decision in March 2020, after Lei 2/2017's 25 January 2017 enactment date (World Health Organization recommendation 13 December 2019, CND decision at its 63rd session), so its absence from the 2017 printed text is explained by timing alone; the open question is whether article 3, paragraph 3's self-executing update clause has since brought it in, which is not resolved by this reading. Only Decreto-Lei 2/2025 was checked as a candidate amending instrument and found not to amend Table IV; no broader search of the Jornal da República 2017 to 2026 for a separate amending law has been completed, and no instrument closing the question the way a No Subsidiary Legislation line would has been located either. On that scope, this is NOT VERIFIED rather than a confirmed absence. Article 3, paragraph 3, of Lei 2/2017 claims the tables update automatically with United Nations scheduling changes; whether that self-executes is not resolved by the printed text, and the printed list's own gaps confirm it: mephedrone (Table II-A item 26) and MDPV were both placed under Schedule II of the 1971 Convention by the same Commission on Narcotic Drugs 58th session, 9 to 17 March 2015, yet only mephedrone is named in the 2017 printed text (Table IV item 54 names only Pirovalerona, MDPV's older, chemically different parent compound); that confirmed gap shows the printed text cannot be trusted as fully current even at its own enactment.
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What Timor-Leste HAS confirmed for related substances
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