Etizolam in Tonga: not individually verified

Not individually verified

We have not confirmed that Etizolam specifically is scheduled in Tonga, 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, a thienotriazolodiazepine, is not itself named anywhere in Schedule 1 of the Illicit Drugs Control Act, Act 7 of 2003, Cap. 4.06, 2020 Revised Edition; a full text search of the cached Schedule 1 for «etizolam» and «thienodiazepine» found no entry. As chemical context only, not as a conclusion: Alprazolam is named in the same Schedule 1 under Class A, in the subgroup «(FROM SCHEDULE IV OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971)», and both molecules share the same triazolo ring fused to the central diazepine ring and a pendant chlorophenyl group, differing in that alprazolam's diazepine is fused to a benzene ring while etizolam's is fused to a thiophene ring in its place; the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) Act 2020, Act 15 of 2020, section 2, defines «analogue drugs» to include a substance that is a structure modification of an illicit drug obtained by «replacement of up to two ring structures with any other ring structure», excluding «a substance that is itself specified in Schedule 1», and a fused benzene ring replaced by a fused thiophene ring would sit within that wording. No finding that etizolam is therefore controlled is drawn from this relationship alone, for two reasons. First, Act 15 of 2020, s.2(f), read directly this session rather than only via an earlier summary of it, inserts the words «, illicit drug analogue» into section 2's «illicit drug» definition. The Act does not itself define «illicit drug analogue» as a term, and the Act does not expressly link it to the separately defined «analogue drugs» quoted above. Even on a reading that the inserted words reach a structural analogue of a Schedule 1 drug, no provision read assigns an «illicit drug analogue» to Class A or Class B, and the penalty paragraphs in sections 3 and 4 are each keyed to a named class, so no penalty band is established for it either way. A full text search of the cached 2020 Revised Edition of the principal Act, the base consolidation rather than the amending Act, still finds no reference to «analogue» anywhere in it, consistent with that consolidation predating the 2020 amendment and never having been updated to carry it. Second, the two 2024 amendment Acts could not be retrieved this session, both the direct PDF link and the containing legislation index returned HTTP 404, so whether either Act names etizolam directly, or changes the analogue clause or assigns it a class, is also not verified. Schedule 1 and the analogue clause are read here as at 7 October 2026, and a later amendment reaching etizolam directly is not ruled out.

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What Tonga HAS confirmed for related substances

Benzodiazepinesa related compound, not Etizolam
Named, as a class. Schedule 1 (section 2) of the Illicit Drugs Control Act, Act 7 of 2003, Cap. 4.06, 2020 Revised Edition, names benzodiazepine-class substances individually rather than as a labelled group; every named member sits under Class A, before the Schedule's own «CLASS B12» heading. In the subgroup headed «(FROM SCHEDULE III OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971)», Flunitrazepam is named. In the subgroup headed «(FROM SCHEDULE IV OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971)», the following are named, read exactly as printed: Alprazolam, Bromazepam, Brotizolam, Camazepam, Chlordiazepoxide, Clobazam, Clonazepam, Clorazepate, Clotiazepam, Clozazolam (as printed in the schedule), Delorazepam, Diazepam, Estazolam, Ethyl loflazepate, Fludiazepam, Flurazepam, Halazepam, Haloxazolam, Ketazolam, Loprazolam, Lorazepam, Lormetazepam, Medazepam, Midazolam, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, Nordazepam, Oxazepam, Oxazolam, Pinazepam, Prazepam, Temazepam, Tetrazepam and Triazolam. The same subgroup also lists Allobarbital, Aminorex, Amphepramone, Barbital, Benzphetamine, Butobarbital, Ethchlorvynol, Ethinamate, Etilamphetamine, Fencamfamin, Fenproporex, Lefetamine, Mazindol, Mefenorex, Meprobamate, Mesocarb, Methylpheno-barbital (a line-wrap artefact in the official PDF for Methylphenobarbital), Methylprylon, Pemoline, Phendimetrazine, Phenobarbital, Phentermine, Pipradrol, Pyrovalerone, Secbutabarbital and Vinylbital, none of which is a benzodiazepine and none of which is treated as one here. This is a class finding built by reading every name in the relevant subgroups rather than answering from one member. Two later amendment Acts, the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) (No.1) Act 2024 and the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) (No.2) Act 2024, could not be retrieved this session, both the direct PDF link and the containing legislation index returned HTTP 404, so whether either amended this Schedule 1 entry, for any named member, is not verified, not ruled out.
ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · https://ago.gov.to/cms/images/LEGISLATION/AMENDING/2025/2025-0026/IllicitDrugsControlAmendmentNo1Act2024.pdf (returned HTTP 404, not retrieved) · https://ago.gov.to/cms/images/LEGISLATION/AMENDING/2025/2025-0027/IllicitDrugsControlAmendmentNo2Act2024.pdf (returned HTTP 404, not retrieved) · ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · Verified October 8, 2026
Clonazepama related compound, not Etizolam
Named. Schedule 1 (section 2) of the Illicit Drugs Control Act, Act 7 of 2003, Cap. 4.06, 2020 Revised Edition, lists «Clonazepam» under Class A, in the subgroup headed «(FROM SCHEDULE IV OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971)». The schedule's own preamble states that the drugs listed, designated by their international non-proprietary names or the names used in international conventions in force, their isomers, esters and ethers, their salts, including the salts of any such isomer, ester or ether, and any preparations including any such substances, «are illicit drugs unless exempted by law». Section 2 defines an illicit drug as «any drug of Class A or Class B listed in Schedule I or anything prescribed by regulation to be an illicit drug». Two later amendment Acts, the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) (No.1) Act 2024 and the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) (No.2) Act 2024, could not be retrieved this session, both the direct PDF link and the containing legislation index returned HTTP 404, so whether either amended this Schedule 1 entry is not verified, not ruled out.
ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · https://ago.gov.to/cms/images/LEGISLATION/AMENDING/2025/2025-0026/IllicitDrugsControlAmendmentNo1Act2024.pdf (returned HTTP 404, not retrieved) · https://ago.gov.to/cms/images/LEGISLATION/AMENDING/2025/2025-0027/IllicitDrugsControlAmendmentNo2Act2024.pdf (returned HTTP 404, not retrieved) · ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · Verified October 8, 2026
Diazepama related compound, not Etizolam
Named. Schedule 1 (section 2) of the Illicit Drugs Control Act, Act 7 of 2003, Cap. 4.06, 2020 Revised Edition, lists «Diazepam» under Class A, in the subgroup headed «(FROM SCHEDULE IV OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971)». The schedule's own preamble states that the drugs listed, designated by their international non-proprietary names or the names used in international conventions in force, their isomers, esters and ethers, their salts, including the salts of any such isomer, ester or ether, and any preparations including any such substances, «are illicit drugs unless exempted by law». Section 2 defines an illicit drug as «any drug of Class A or Class B listed in Schedule I or anything prescribed by regulation to be an illicit drug». Two later amendment Acts, the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) (No.1) Act 2024 and the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) (No.2) Act 2024, could not be retrieved this session, both the direct PDF link and the containing legislation index returned HTTP 404, so whether either amended this Schedule 1 entry is not verified, not ruled out.
ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · https://ago.gov.to/cms/images/LEGISLATION/AMENDING/2025/2025-0026/IllicitDrugsControlAmendmentNo1Act2024.pdf (returned HTTP 404, not retrieved) · https://ago.gov.to/cms/images/LEGISLATION/AMENDING/2025/2025-0027/IllicitDrugsControlAmendmentNo2Act2024.pdf (returned HTTP 404, not retrieved) · ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · Verified October 8, 2026
Lorazepama related compound, not Etizolam
Named. Schedule 1 (section 2) of the Illicit Drugs Control Act, Act 7 of 2003, Cap. 4.06, 2020 Revised Edition, lists «Lorazepam» under Class A, in the subgroup headed «(FROM SCHEDULE IV OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971)». The schedule's own preamble states that the drugs listed, designated by their international non-proprietary names or the names used in international conventions in force, their isomers, esters and ethers, their salts, including the salts of any such isomer, ester or ether, and any preparations including any such substances, «are illicit drugs unless exempted by law». Section 2 defines an illicit drug as «any drug of Class A or Class B listed in Schedule I or anything prescribed by regulation to be an illicit drug». Two later amendment Acts, the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) (No.1) Act 2024 and the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) (No.2) Act 2024, could not be retrieved this session, both the direct PDF link and the containing legislation index returned HTTP 404, so whether either amended this Schedule 1 entry is not verified, not ruled out.
ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · https://ago.gov.to/cms/images/LEGISLATION/AMENDING/2025/2025-0026/IllicitDrugsControlAmendmentNo1Act2024.pdf (returned HTTP 404, not retrieved) · https://ago.gov.to/cms/images/LEGISLATION/AMENDING/2025/2025-0027/IllicitDrugsControlAmendmentNo2Act2024.pdf (returned HTTP 404, not retrieved) · ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · Verified October 8, 2026
Xanax (Alprazolam)a related compound, not Etizolam
Named. Schedule 1 (section 2) of the Illicit Drugs Control Act, Act 7 of 2003, Cap. 4.06, 2020 Revised Edition, lists «Alprazolam» under Class A, in the subgroup headed «(FROM SCHEDULE IV OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971)». The schedule's own preamble states that the drugs listed, designated by their international non-proprietary names or the names used in international conventions in force, their isomers, esters and ethers, their salts, including the salts of any such isomer, ester or ether, and any preparations including any such substances, «are illicit drugs unless exempted by law». Section 2 defines an illicit drug as «any drug of Class A or Class B listed in Schedule I or anything prescribed by regulation to be an illicit drug». Two later amendment Acts, the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) (No.1) Act 2024 and the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) (No.2) Act 2024, could not be retrieved this session, both the direct PDF link and the containing legislation index returned HTTP 404, so whether either amended this Schedule 1 entry is not verified, not ruled out.
ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · https://ago.gov.to/cms/images/LEGISLATION/AMENDING/2025/2025-0026/IllicitDrugsControlAmendmentNo1Act2024.pdf (returned HTTP 404, not retrieved) · https://ago.gov.to/cms/images/LEGISLATION/AMENDING/2025/2025-0027/IllicitDrugsControlAmendmentNo2Act2024.pdf (returned HTTP 404, not retrieved) · ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · ago.gov.to · Verified October 8, 2026

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