Legal status in Falkland Islands (UK)

2C-B

Legal status: Controlled under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: 2C-B is controlled in the Falkland Islands under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework. In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Falkland Islands misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated June 29, 2026

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2C-E

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. 2C-E, 4-ethyl-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, falls within the ring-substitution limb in Part 1, paragraph 1(c) of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987.
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(c) of the Schedule reaches «any compound (not being methoxyphenamine or a compound for the time being specified in subparagraph (a) above) structurally derived from phenethylamine, an N-alkylphenethylamine, alpha-methylphenethylarmine, an N-alkyl-alpha-methylphenethylamine, alpha- ethylphenethylamine, or an N-alkyl-alpha-ethylphenethylamine by substitution in the ring to any extent with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylene-dioxy or halide substituents, whether or not further substituted in the ring by one or more other univalent substituents». 2C-E carries an ethyl group, an alkyl substituent, and two methoxy groups, alkoxy substituents, on the ring of an unmodified phenethylamine. A search of the Ordinance text for 2c-e returned 0 matches, so the placement rests on paragraph 1(c) and not on a named entry. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: It falls within Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, which repeats the same structural limb, and none of the possession or supply exceptions in regulations 8 to 10 names Schedule 1. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates it under section 7(4) of the Ordinance, and section 7(4) provides that «while there is in force such an order subsection (3) shall not apply to the drug specified in the order», so the power to let doctors prescribe and supply it is switched off and there is no prescription route.
Documentation: The controlling law for 2C-E in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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2C-I

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. 2C-I, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenethylamine, is not named in the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987, but it is phenethylamine substituted in the ring with two methoxy groups and an iodine atom, which is the structural limb in Part 1, paragraph 1(c).
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(c) of the Schedule reaches «any compound (not being methoxyphenamine or a compound for the time being specified in subparagraph (a) above) structurally derived from phenethylamine, an N-alkylphenethylamine, alpha-methylphenethylarmine, an N-alkyl-alpha-methylphenethylamine, alpha- ethylphenethylamine, or an N-alkyl-alpha-ethylphenethylamine by substitution in the ring to any extent with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylene-dioxy or halide substituents, whether or not further substituted in the ring by one or more other univalent substituents». Iodine is a halide and methoxy is an alkoxy group, both on the ring, and the side chain is unmodified, so 2C-I sits inside that limb. Searching the Ordinance text for 2c-i and for iodo returned 0 matches; the nearest named entry, «4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxy-a-methyl-phenethylamine», is the bromo amphetamine and was not relied on. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: It falls within Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, which repeats the same structural limb, and none of the possession or supply exceptions in regulations 8 to 10 names Schedule 1. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates it under section 7(4) of the Ordinance, and section 7(4) provides that «while there is in force such an order subsection (3) shall not apply to the drug specified in the order», so the power to let doctors prescribe and supply it is switched off and there is no prescription route.
Documentation: The controlling law for 2C-I in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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2C-T-7

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. 2C-T-7, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-(propylthio)phenethylamine, falls within Part 1, paragraph 1(c) of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987, which admits a further univalent ring substituent once the ring carries alkoxy groups.
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(c) of the Schedule reaches «any compound (not being methoxyphenamine or a compound for the time being specified in subparagraph (a) above) structurally derived from phenethylamine, an N-alkylphenethylamine, alpha-methylphenethylarmine, an N-alkyl-alpha-methylphenethylamine, alpha- ethylphenethylamine, or an N-alkyl-alpha-ethylphenethylamine by substitution in the ring to any extent with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylene-dioxy or halide substituents, whether or not further substituted in the ring by one or more other univalent substituents». 2C-T-7 has two methoxy groups on the ring and a propylthio group in the 4 position. The methoxy groups bring it within the limb and the propylthio group is the «one or more other univalent substituents» the limb expressly tolerates. Searches for 2c-t and propylthio in the Ordinance text returned 0 matches. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: It falls within Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, which repeats the same structural limb, and none of the possession or supply exceptions in regulations 8 to 10 names Schedule 1. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates it under section 7(4) of the Ordinance, and section 7(4) provides that «while there is in force such an order subsection (3) shall not apply to the drug specified in the order», so the power to let doctors prescribe and supply it is switched off and there is no prescription route.
Documentation: The controlling law for 2C-T-7 in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. 4-AcO-DMT is the acetic acid ester of psilocin, and Part 1 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Psilocin» and adds any ester of a substance it names.
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(a) lists «Psilocin». Part 1, paragraph 3 adds «Any ester or ether of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2 not being a substance for the time being specified in Part 2 of this Schedule». 4-AcO-DMT, O-acetylpsilocin, is that ester, formed at the 4-hydroxy group of psilocin. A search for acetoxy in the Ordinance text returned 0 matches; the ring-hydroxy tryptamine limb in paragraph 1(b) was not relied on, because 4-AcO-DMT carries an acetoxy rather than a hydroxy group on the ring. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Psilocin, with its esters, is in Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, and none of the possession or supply exceptions in regulations 8 to 10 names Schedule 1. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates it under section 7(4) of the Ordinance, and section 7(4) provides that «while there is in force such an order subsection (3) shall not apply to the drug specified in the order», so the power to let doctors prescribe and supply it is switched off and there is no prescription route.
Documentation: The controlling law for 4-AcO-DMT in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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4-HO-MET

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, falls within the ring-hydroxy tryptamine limb in Part 1, paragraph 1(b) of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987.
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(b) reaches «any compound (not being a compound for the time being specified in subparagraph (a) above) structurally derived from tryptamine or from a ring-hydroxy tryptamine by substitution at the nitrogen atom of the side chain with one or more alkyl substituents but no other substituent». 4-HO-MET is 4-hydroxytryptamine, a ring-hydroxy tryptamine, carrying a methyl and an ethyl group, both alkyl, on the side chain nitrogen and nothing else. The compound is not named; the nearest named entry, «Psilocin», is the N,N-dimethyl analogue. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: It falls within Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, which repeats the same structural limb, and none of the possession or supply exceptions in regulations 8 to 10 names Schedule 1. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates it under section 7(4) of the Ordinance, and section 7(4) provides that «while there is in force such an order subsection (3) shall not apply to the drug specified in the order», so the power to let doctors prescribe and supply it is switched off and there is no prescription route.
Documentation: The controlling law for 4-HO-MET in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. 5-MeO-DMT is the methyl ether of bufotenine, and Part 1 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Bufotenine» and adds any ether of a substance it names.
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(a) lists «Bufotenine», 5-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine. Part 1, paragraph 3 adds «Any ester or ether of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 or 2 not being a substance for the time being specified in Part 2 of this Schedule». 5-MeO-DMT, 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, is the O-methyl ether of bufotenine. The tryptamine limb in paragraph 1(b) was not relied on: it reaches tryptamine and ring-hydroxy tryptamines, and a methoxy group is not a hydroxy group. A search for the full chemical name returned 0 matches. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Bufotenine, with its ethers, is in Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, and none of the possession or supply exceptions in regulations 8 to 10 names Schedule 1. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates it under section 7(4) of the Ordinance, and section 7(4) provides that «while there is in force such an order subsection (3) shall not apply to the drug specified in the order», so the power to let doctors prescribe and supply it is switched off and there is no prescription route.
Documentation: The controlling law for 5-MeO-DMT in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Class B controlled drug in the Falkland Islands, or Class A in a preparation designed for injection. Adderall is mixed amphetamine salts, and Part 2 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Amphetamine» with its stereoisomers, salts and preparations.
Consequences if caught: Adderall is a brand name for tablets of mixed amphetamine salts. Part 2, paragraph 1(a) lists «Amphetamine»; paragraph 2 adds «Any stereoisomeric form», which takes in dextroamphetamine; paragraph 3 adds any salt and paragraph 4 «Any preparation or other product containing» them. A search for adderall returned 0 matches. Part 1, paragraph 6 of the Schedule moves «Any preparation designed for administration by injection which includes a substance or product for the time being specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 3 of Part 2 of this Schedule» into Class A, so an injectable preparation carries the Class A penalties instead: up to 14 years and a level 10 fine, £125,000, for possession with intent to supply, supply or import, and 7 years and a level 8 fine, £25,000, for possession. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class B drug other than cannabis: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 5 years and a fine at level 6. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Amphetamine is in paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, and paragraph 7 adds «Any stereoisomeric form of a substance specified in paragraph 6», which takes in dextroamphetamine; paragraphs 8 and 9 add their salts and any preparation containing them. Regulation 10(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 provides that «a person may have in his possession any drug specified in Schedule 2 or 3 for administration for medical, dental or veterinary purposes in accordance with the directions of a practitioner». Its proviso provides that the paragraph «shall not have effect in the case of a person to whom the drug has been supplied by or on the prescription of a doctor if», first, «that person was then being supplied with any controlled drug by or on the prescription of another doctor and failed to disclose that fact to the first mentioned doctor before the supply by him or on his prescription», or, second, «that or any other person on his behalf made a declaration or statement, which was false in any particular, for the purpose of obtaining the supply or prescription». Section 2(1) of the Ordinance defines a practitioner as «a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner or veterinary surgeon» and a doctor as «a person entitled to practise as such in the Falkland Islands», and no provision of the Ordinance or the 1997 Regulations Order read in this run covers a prescription written outside the Falkland Islands. Schedule 2 drugs are not among those regulation 4(1) excepts from the import ban, so bringing Adderall into the Falkland Islands falls under section 3(1) unless it is licensed. Section 3(2) of the Ordinance provides that the import ban «does not apply to the importation or exportation of a controlled drug in accordance with and in compliance with any condition attached to a licence issued by the Chief Medical Officer». The Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989 also adopts regulations made under the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 «Except insofar as the same may be inconsistent with the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 or with any regulations made thereunder»; which UK regulations that now carries was not settled in this run, and this cell does not rely on it.
Documentation: The controlling law for Adderall in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 5, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Class B controlled drug in the Falkland Islands, or Class A in a preparation designed for injection. Part 2 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Amphetamine».
Consequences if caught: Part 2, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule, headed «CLASS B DRUGS», lists «Amphetamine», and paragraphs 2 to 4 add «Any stereoisomeric form», any salt and any preparation containing it. Part 1, paragraph 6 moves any Part 2 drug in a preparation designed for injection into Class A. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class B drug other than cannabis: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 5 years and a fine at level 6. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Amphetamine is in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997. Regulation 10(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 provides that «a person may have in his possession any drug specified in Schedule 2 or 3 for administration for medical, dental or veterinary purposes in accordance with the directions of a practitioner». Its proviso provides that the paragraph «shall not have effect in the case of a person to whom the drug has been supplied by or on the prescription of a doctor if», first, «that person was then being supplied with any controlled drug by or on the prescription of another doctor and failed to disclose that fact to the first mentioned doctor before the supply by him or on his prescription», or, second, «that or any other person on his behalf made a declaration or statement, which was false in any particular, for the purpose of obtaining the supply or prescription». Section 2(1) of the Ordinance defines a practitioner as «a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner or veterinary surgeon» and a doctor as «a person entitled to practise as such in the Falkland Islands», and no provision of the Ordinance or the 1997 Regulations Order read in this run covers a prescription written outside the Falkland Islands. Schedule 2 drugs are not among those regulation 4(1) excepts from the import ban, so bringing amphetamine into the Falkland Islands falls under section 3(1) unless it is licensed. Section 3(2) of the Ordinance provides that the import ban «does not apply to the importation or exportation of a controlled drug in accordance with and in compliance with any condition attached to a licence issued by the Chief Medical Officer». The Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989 also adopts regulations made under the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 «Except insofar as the same may be inconsistent with the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 or with any regulations made thereunder»; which UK regulations that now carries was not settled in this run, and this cell does not rely on it.
Documentation: The controlling law for amphetamine in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 5, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands where the brew contains DMT. Ayahuasca is not named in the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987, but «N,N-Dimethyltryptamine» is, and Part 1, paragraph 5 adds any preparation containing it.
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(a) lists «N,N-Dimethyltryptamine». Part 1, paragraph 5 adds «Any preparation or other product containing a substance or product for the time being specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 4». A brew prepared to contain DMT is a preparation containing a Class A drug. Searches for ayahuasca, banisteriopsis, harmine and harmaline returned 0 matches, so the vine and its harmala alkaloids are not themselves controlled; the placement follows the DMT, and a brew with no DMT in it is not reached by this route. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: N,N-Dimethyltryptamine is in Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, which no possession or supply exception in regulations 8 to 10 names. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates it under section 7(4) of the Ordinance, and section 7(4) provides that «while there is in force such an order subsection (3) shall not apply to the drug specified in the order», so the power to let doctors prescribe and supply it is switched off and there is no prescription route.
Documentation: The controlling law for ayahuasca in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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Barbiturates

Legal status: Class B controlled drugs in the Falkland Islands, or Class A in a preparation designed for injection. Part 2 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 covers «any 5,5 disubstituted barbituric acid», which takes in the barbiturates as a class.
Consequences if caught: Part 2, paragraph 1(b) of the Schedule reaches «any 5,5 disubstituted barbituric acid», and paragraph 1(a) names «Methylphenobarbitone» separately. Phenobarbital, butalbital, pentobarbital and secobarbital are all 5,5 disubstituted barbituric acids, so each is Class B together with its salts and preparations under paragraphs 3 and 4. Part 1, paragraph 6 of the Schedule moves «Any preparation designed for administration by injection which includes a substance or product for the time being specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 3 of Part 2 of this Schedule» into Class A, so an injectable preparation carries the Class A penalties instead: up to 14 years and a level 10 fine, £125,000, for possession with intent to supply, supply or import, and 7 years and a level 8 fine, £25,000, for possession. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class B drug other than cannabis: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 5 years and a fine at level 6. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Barbiturates are in Schedule 3 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, paragraph 1(b) of which lists «any 5,5 disubstituted barbituric acid». Regulation 10(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 provides that «a person may have in his possession any drug specified in Schedule 2 or 3 for administration for medical, dental or veterinary purposes in accordance with the directions of a practitioner». Its proviso provides that the paragraph «shall not have effect in the case of a person to whom the drug has been supplied by or on the prescription of a doctor if», first, «that person was then being supplied with any controlled drug by or on the prescription of another doctor and failed to disclose that fact to the first mentioned doctor before the supply by him or on his prescription», or, second, «that or any other person on his behalf made a declaration or statement, which was false in any particular, for the purpose of obtaining the supply or prescription». Section 2(1) of the Ordinance defines a practitioner as «a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner or veterinary surgeon» and a doctor as «a person entitled to practise as such in the Falkland Islands», and no provision of the Ordinance or the 1997 Regulations Order read in this run covers a prescription written outside the Falkland Islands. Schedule 3 drugs are not among those regulation 4(1) excepts from the import ban, so bringing a barbiturate into the Falkland Islands falls under section 3(1) unless it is licensed. Section 3(2) of the Ordinance provides that the import ban «does not apply to the importation or exportation of a controlled drug in accordance with and in compliance with any condition attached to a licence issued by the Chief Medical Officer». The Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989 also adopts regulations made under the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 «Except insofar as the same may be inconsistent with the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 or with any regulations made thereunder»; which UK regulations that now carries was not settled in this run, and this cell does not rely on it.
Documentation: The controlling law for barbiturates in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 5, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Benzodiazepines is controlled in the Falkland Islands under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework. In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Class C controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Part 3 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Buprenorphine».
Consequences if caught: Part 3, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule lists «Buprenorphine» between «Brotizolam» and «Camazepam», and paragraphs 2 to 4 add its stereoisomers, salts and preparations, so a buprenorphine tablet or film, alone or combined with naloxone, is covered. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class C drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 5 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 6; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 2 years and a fine at level 4. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries 5 years and level 6 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Buprenorphine is not printed in any of Schedules 1 to 5 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997: a search of that Order's text for buprenorphine returned 0 matches. So none of the import, possession or supply exceptions in that Order names it, and no route under it for a patient to import or hold buprenorphine was found. Section 3(2) of the Ordinance provides that the import ban «does not apply to the importation or exportation of a controlled drug in accordance with and in compliance with any condition attached to a licence issued by the Chief Medical Officer». Section 2(1) of the Ordinance defines a practitioner as «a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner or veterinary surgeon» and a doctor as «a person entitled to practise as such in the Falkland Islands», and no provision of the Ordinance or the 1997 Regulations Order read in this run covers a prescription written outside the Falkland Islands. The Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989 also adopts regulations made under the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 «Except insofar as the same may be inconsistent with the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 or with any regulations made thereunder»; which UK regulations that now carries was not settled in this run, and this cell does not rely on it.
Documentation: The controlling law for buprenorphine in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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Cannabinol

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Part 1 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Cannabinol, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin».
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(a) lists «Cannabinol, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin». So isolated CBN, or a product made from it, is a Class A drug, while CBN that is still inside cannabis plant material or resin is covered by the separate entry «Cannabis and cannabis resin» in Part 2, Class B. The 2022 exception order covers tetrahydrocannabinol only, not cannabinol. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Cannabinol is in Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, and none of the possession or supply exceptions in regulations 8 to 10 names Schedule 1. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates it under section 7(4) of the Ordinance, and section 7(4) provides that «while there is in force such an order subsection (3) shall not apply to the drug specified in the order», so the power to let doctors prescribe and supply it is switched off and there is no prescription route.
Documentation: The controlling law for cannabinol in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Cannabis is a controlled drug under the Falkland Islands' misuse-of-drugs ordinance framework, fully prohibited with no legal recreational or medical regime; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Cannabis is a controlled drug in the Falkland Islands under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, fully prohibited with no recreational or medical regime. In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same framework, fully prohibited with no recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Falkland Islands misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated June 29, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Class C controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Part 3 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Cathinone».
Consequences if caught: Part 3, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule lists «Cathinone», and separately «Cathine»; paragraphs 2 to 4 add stereoisomers, salts and preparations. Methcathinone, its N-methyl analogue, is a different entry, in Part 2 as Class B. The khat plant, whose leaves contain cathinone, is not named, which is dealt with in the khat cell. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class C drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 5 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 6; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 2 years and a fine at level 4. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries 5 years and level 6 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Cathinone is in Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, which no possession or supply exception in regulations 8 to 10 names. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates it under section 7(4) of the Ordinance, and section 7(4) provides that «while there is in force such an order subsection (3) shall not apply to the drug specified in the order», so the power to let doctors prescribe and supply it is switched off and there is no prescription route.
Documentation: The controlling law for cathinone in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Class C controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Part 3 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Clonazepam»; importing it for one's own use, and possessing it as a medicine, are excepted from the Misuse of Drugs offences by the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, but supplying it is an offence.
Consequences if caught: Part 3, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule, headed «CLASS C DRUGS», lists «Clonazepam» among the benzodiazepines, and paragraphs 2 to 4 add its stereoisomers, salts and preparations. It is listed after «Clobazam» and before «Clorazepic acid». Clonazepam tablets held as a medicinal product fall within the Schedule 4 possession exception, and the penalties below bite on supply, on possession with intent to supply, and on possession other than in a medicinal product. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class C drug in Schedule 4 to the 1997 Regulations Order: importing or exporting it is not a Misuse of Drugs offence, because regulation 4(1) switches section 3(1) off for Schedule 4 drugs, so the Misuse of Drugs import prohibition does not apply to it. Separately, the Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994 prohibits importing any medicine «for the purpose of the retail sale within the Falkland Islands of that medicine» unless the importation «has been authorised in writing by the Chief Medical Officer»; it does not apply to medicines imported for a person's own use. Importing a medicine for retail sale in breach of that Proclamation, with intent to evade it, can be charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003, which section 43(4) punishes with a fine of up to level 12, £625,000, or up to 7 years' imprisonment. Producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 5 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 6; possessing it other than in a medicinal product (section 5(1)) carries up to 2 years and a fine at level 4. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Clonazepam is in Schedule 4 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997. Regulation 4(1) provides that section 3(1) of the Ordinance «shall not have effect in relation to the drugs specified in Schedules 4 and 5», and regulation 4(2)(a) that section 5(1) shall not have effect in relation to «any drug specified in Schedule 4 which is contained in a medicinal product». So importing clonazepam for one's own use and possessing it as a medicine are not Misuse of Drugs offences, with or without a prescription, while importing it for retail sale needs the Chief Medical Officer's written authorisation under the Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994; supplying it to another person remains an offence under section 4 unless one of the regulation 9 exceptions for practitioners, pharmacists and hospitals applies. Regulation 2 of the 1997 Regulations Order gives medicinal product «the same meaning as in the Medicines Act 1968»; whether an illicitly made tablet meets that definition was not settled in this run.
Documentation: The controlling law for clonazepam in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, sections 2 (relevant enactment), 43(3) and (4) and 163(2) and (4) · legislation.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Cocaine is controlled in the Falkland Islands under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework. In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Falkland Islands misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated June 29, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Class B controlled drug in the Falkland Islands, or Class A in a preparation designed for injection. Part 2 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Codeine», but a preparation of codeine not designed for administration by injection, compounded with one or more other active or inert ingredients and containing not more than 100 milligrammes in total of codeine and the other substances to which paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 applies (calculated as base) per dosage unit, or not more than 2.5 per cent. (calculated as base) in an undivided preparation, is excepted from the import and possession bans by Schedule 5 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997.
Consequences if caught: Part 2, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule lists «Codeine» and «Dihydrocodeine». Schedule 5, paragraph 1 of the 1997 Regulations Order covers «Any preparation of one or more of the substances to which this paragraph applies, not being a preparation designed for administration by injection, when compounded with one or more other active or inert ingredients and containing a total of not more than 100 milligrammes of the substance or substances (calculated as base) per dosage unit or with a total concentration of not more than 2.5 per cent. (calculated as base) in undivided preparations», and codeine is one of those substances; regulation 4(1) and 4(2)(b) lift the import and possession bans for Schedule 5. The penalties below apply to codeine itself and to preparations outside the Schedule 5 limits; for a Schedule 5 preparation, importing, exporting and simple possession (sections 3(1) and 5(1)) are not offences, while supplying it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)), permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) and attempt or incitement (section 17) remain offences, unless an exception in regulation 5, 6, 7(1), 8 or 11 of the 1997 Order applies. Part 1, paragraph 6 of the Schedule moves «Any preparation designed for administration by injection which includes a substance or product for the time being specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 3 of Part 2 of this Schedule» into Class A, so an injectable preparation carries the Class A penalties instead: up to 14 years and a level 10 fine, £125,000, for possession with intent to supply, supply or import, and 7 years and a level 8 fine, £25,000, for possession. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class B drug other than cannabis: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 5 years and a fine at level 6. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Codeine is in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997. Regulation 10(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 provides that «a person may have in his possession any drug specified in Schedule 2 or 3 for administration for medical, dental or veterinary purposes in accordance with the directions of a practitioner». Its proviso provides that the paragraph «shall not have effect in the case of a person to whom the drug has been supplied by or on the prescription of a doctor if», first, «that person was then being supplied with any controlled drug by or on the prescription of another doctor and failed to disclose that fact to the first mentioned doctor before the supply by him or on his prescription», or, second, «that or any other person on his behalf made a declaration or statement, which was false in any particular, for the purpose of obtaining the supply or prescription». Section 2(1) of the Ordinance defines a practitioner as «a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner or veterinary surgeon» and a doctor as «a person entitled to practise as such in the Falkland Islands», and no provision of the Ordinance or the 1997 Regulations Order read in this run covers a prescription written outside the Falkland Islands. Schedule 2 drugs are not among those regulation 4(1) excepts from the import ban, so bringing codeine into the Falkland Islands falls under section 3(1) unless it is licensed, except a preparation within Schedule 5 described below. Section 3(2) of the Ordinance provides that the import ban «does not apply to the importation or exportation of a controlled drug in accordance with and in compliance with any condition attached to a licence issued by the Chief Medical Officer». Paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 covers «Any preparation of one or more of the substances to which this paragraph applies, not being a preparation designed for administration by injection, when compounded with one or more other active or inert ingredients and containing a total of not more than 100 milligrammes of the substance or substances (calculated as base) per dosage unit or with a total concentration of not more than 2.5 per cent. (calculated as base) in undivided preparations», and codeine is one of those substances. Regulation 4(1) and 4(2)(b) lift the import, export and possession bans for the drugs in Schedule 5. A codeine preparation within paragraph 1 therefore needs, under the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance and the 1997 Order, neither a licence nor a prescription to be imported or possessed. The Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989 also adopts regulations made under the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 «Except insofar as the same may be inconsistent with the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 or with any regulations made thereunder»; which UK regulations that now carries was not settled in this run, and this cell does not rely on it.
Documentation: The controlling law for codeine in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 5, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Crack is cocaine in its free base form, and Part 1 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Cocaine».
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule lists «Cocaine», «Coca leaf» and «Ecgonine, and any derivative of ecgonine which is convertible to ecgonine or to cocaine». Crack is cocaine base, so it is the named substance and needs no structural limb; the word crack does not appear in the text. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route for crack. Cocaine is in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, so regulation 10(2) protects possession of cocaine only «for administration for medical, dental or veterinary purposes in accordance with the directions of a practitioner», and section 2(1) limits a practitioner to a doctor, dentist or veterinary surgeon entitled to practise in the Falkland Islands.
Documentation: The controlling law for crack cocaine in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Delta-8-THC is a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol, one of the «Cannabinol derivatives» Part 1 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names, when it is not contained in cannabis or cannabis resin.
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(a) lists «Cannabinol derivatives». Part 4 of the Schedule defines cannabinol derivatives as «the following substances, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin, namely tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives». Delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol is a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol, differing from delta-9-THC only in the position of one double bond, so an isolated or synthesised delta-8-THC product is a Class A drug. Inside cannabis plant material it falls under the cannabis entry in Part 2, Class B, instead. The Misuse of Drugs (Exception of Controlled Drugs - Tetrahydrocannabinol) Order 2022 excepts certain products in which no component part contains more than one milligram of «tetrahydrocannabinol»; whether that word reaches delta-8-THC was not settled in this run. Either way, article 3(a) limits the exception to a product that «is not designed for administration of tetrahydrocannabinol to a human being or animal», so a vape, oil or edible made to deliver it falls outside. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Cannabinol and its derivatives are in Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, except dronabinol, which is in Schedule 2, and none of the possession or supply exceptions in regulations 8 to 10 names Schedule 1. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates it under section 7(4) of the Ordinance, and section 7(4) provides that «while there is in force such an order subsection (3) shall not apply to the drug specified in the order», so the power to let doctors prescribe and supply it is switched off and there is no prescription route.
Documentation: The controlling law for delta-8-THC in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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Diazepam

Legal status: Class C controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Part 3 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Diazepam»; importing it for one's own use, and possessing it as a medicine, are excepted from the Misuse of Drugs offences by the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, but supplying it is an offence.
Consequences if caught: Part 3, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule, headed «CLASS C DRUGS», lists «Diazepam» among the benzodiazepines, and paragraphs 2 to 4 add its stereoisomers, salts and preparations. It sits between «Dextropropoxyphene» and «Diethylpropion». Being in Schedule 4 to the 1997 Regulations Order, diazepam held as a medicinal product, such as prescribed tablets, is outside the possession offence, and the penalties below bite on supply, on possession with intent to supply, and on diazepam held in any other form. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class C drug in Schedule 4 to the 1997 Regulations Order: importing or exporting it is not a Misuse of Drugs offence, because regulation 4(1) switches section 3(1) off for Schedule 4 drugs, so the Misuse of Drugs import prohibition does not apply to it. Separately, the Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994 prohibits importing any medicine «for the purpose of the retail sale within the Falkland Islands of that medicine» unless the importation «has been authorised in writing by the Chief Medical Officer»; it does not apply to medicines imported for a person's own use. Importing a medicine for retail sale in breach of that Proclamation, with intent to evade it, can be charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003, which section 43(4) punishes with a fine of up to level 12, £625,000, or up to 7 years' imprisonment. Producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 5 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 6; possessing it other than in a medicinal product (section 5(1)) carries up to 2 years and a fine at level 4. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Diazepam is in Schedule 4 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997. Regulation 4(1) provides that section 3(1) of the Ordinance «shall not have effect in relation to the drugs specified in Schedules 4 and 5», and regulation 4(2)(a) that section 5(1) shall not have effect in relation to «any drug specified in Schedule 4 which is contained in a medicinal product». So importing diazepam for one's own use and possessing it as a medicine are not Misuse of Drugs offences, with or without a prescription, while importing it for retail sale needs the Chief Medical Officer's written authorisation under the Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994; supplying it to another person remains an offence under section 4 unless one of the regulation 9 exceptions for practitioners, pharmacists and hospitals applies. Regulation 2 of the 1997 Regulations Order gives medicinal product «the same meaning as in the Medicines Act 1968»; whether an illicitly made tablet meets that definition was not settled in this run.
Documentation: The controlling law for diazepam in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, sections 2 (relevant enactment), 43(3) and (4) and 163(2) and (4) · legislation.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: Controlled under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: DMT is controlled in the Falkland Islands under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework. In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Falkland Islands misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated June 29, 2026

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DOM

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. DOM is named in Part 1 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 by its chemical name, printed «2,5-Dimethoxy-a,4-dimethylphenethylamine».
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule, headed «CLASS A DRUGS», lists «2,5-Dimethoxy-a,4-dimethylphenethylamine», which is DOM, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine; the a in the printed name stands for alpha. Paragraphs 2 and 4 add its stereoisomers and salts. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: DOM is printed in Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 as «2,5-Dimethoxy-a-,4-dimethylphenethylamine», and none of the possession or supply exceptions in regulations 8 to 10 names Schedule 1. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates it under section 7(4) of the Ordinance, and section 7(4) provides that «while there is in force such an order subsection (3) shall not apply to the drug specified in the order», so the power to let doctors prescribe and supply it is switched off and there is no prescription route.
Documentation: The controlling law for DOM in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Fentanyl is controlled in the Falkland Islands under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework. In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Falkland Islands misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated June 29, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: Controlled under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: GHB is controlled in the Falkland Islands under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework. In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Falkland Islands misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated June 29, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Controlled under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Heroin is controlled in the Falkland Islands under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework. In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Falkland Islands misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated June 29, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Part 1 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Hydrocodone».
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule lists «Hydrocodone» between «Furethidine» and «Hydromorphinol»; paragraph 4 adds its salts, such as the bitartrate in combination products, and paragraph 5 any preparation containing it. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Hydrocodone is in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997. Regulation 10(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 provides that «a person may have in his possession any drug specified in Schedule 2 or 3 for administration for medical, dental or veterinary purposes in accordance with the directions of a practitioner». Its proviso provides that the paragraph «shall not have effect in the case of a person to whom the drug has been supplied by or on the prescription of a doctor if», first, «that person was then being supplied with any controlled drug by or on the prescription of another doctor and failed to disclose that fact to the first mentioned doctor before the supply by him or on his prescription», or, second, «that or any other person on his behalf made a declaration or statement, which was false in any particular, for the purpose of obtaining the supply or prescription». Section 2(1) of the Ordinance defines a practitioner as «a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner or veterinary surgeon» and a doctor as «a person entitled to practise as such in the Falkland Islands», and no provision of the Ordinance or the 1997 Regulations Order read in this run covers a prescription written outside the Falkland Islands. Schedule 2 drugs are not among those regulation 4(1) excepts from the import ban, so bringing hydrocodone into the Falkland Islands falls under section 3(1) unless it is licensed. Section 3(2) of the Ordinance provides that the import ban «does not apply to the importation or exportation of a controlled drug in accordance with and in compliance with any condition attached to a licence issued by the Chief Medical Officer». The Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989 also adopts regulations made under the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 «Except insofar as the same may be inconsistent with the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 or with any regulations made thereunder»; which UK regulations that now carries was not settled in this run, and this cell does not rely on it.
Documentation: The controlling law for hydrocodone in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 5, 2026

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Class C controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Part 3 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Lorazepam»; importing it for one's own use, and possessing it as a medicine, are excepted from the Misuse of Drugs offences by the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, but supplying it is an offence.
Consequences if caught: Part 3, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule, headed «CLASS C DRUGS», lists «Lorazepam» among the benzodiazepines, and paragraphs 2 to 4 add its stereoisomers, salts and preparations. It is listed between «Loprazolam» and «Lormetazepam». Lorazepam held as a medicinal product, tablets or injection, falls within the Schedule 4 possession exception, and the penalties below bite on supply, on possession with intent to supply, and on possession other than in a medicinal product. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class C drug in Schedule 4 to the 1997 Regulations Order: importing or exporting it is not a Misuse of Drugs offence, because regulation 4(1) switches section 3(1) off for Schedule 4 drugs, so the Misuse of Drugs import prohibition does not apply to it. Separately, the Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994 prohibits importing any medicine «for the purpose of the retail sale within the Falkland Islands of that medicine» unless the importation «has been authorised in writing by the Chief Medical Officer»; it does not apply to medicines imported for a person's own use. Importing a medicine for retail sale in breach of that Proclamation, with intent to evade it, can be charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003, which section 43(4) punishes with a fine of up to level 12, £625,000, or up to 7 years' imprisonment. Producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 5 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 6; possessing it other than in a medicinal product (section 5(1)) carries up to 2 years and a fine at level 4. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Lorazepam is in Schedule 4 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997. Regulation 4(1) provides that section 3(1) of the Ordinance «shall not have effect in relation to the drugs specified in Schedules 4 and 5», and regulation 4(2)(a) that section 5(1) shall not have effect in relation to «any drug specified in Schedule 4 which is contained in a medicinal product». So importing lorazepam for one's own use and possessing it as a medicine are not Misuse of Drugs offences, with or without a prescription, while importing it for retail sale needs the Chief Medical Officer's written authorisation under the Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994; supplying it to another person remains an offence under section 4 unless one of the regulation 9 exceptions for practitioners, pharmacists and hospitals applies. Regulation 2 of the 1997 Regulations Order gives medicinal product «the same meaning as in the Medicines Act 1968»; whether an illicitly made tablet meets that definition was not settled in this run.
Documentation: The controlling law for lorazepam in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, sections 2 (relevant enactment), 43(3) and (4) and 163(2) and (4) · legislation.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. LSA, d-lysergic acid amide, is lysergamide, which Part 1 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names as «Lysergamide».
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule lists «Lysergamide» and, separately, «Lysergide and other N-alkyl derivatives of lysergamide». LSA, also called ergine, is lysergamide itself. A search for ergine, morning glory and argyreia returned 0 matches: the seeds of Ipomoea and Argyreia species that contain LSA are not named, and whether a seed is a «preparation or other product containing» lysergamide under paragraph 5 is not settled by the text read. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Lysergamide is in Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, which no possession or supply exception in regulations 8 to 10 names. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates it under section 7(4) of the Ordinance, and section 7(4) provides that «while there is in force such an order subsection (3) shall not apply to the drug specified in the order», so the power to let doctors prescribe and supply it is switched off and there is no prescription route.
Documentation: The controlling law for LSA in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database. This cell covers the compound; the seeds are a separate question.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: Controlled under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: LSD is controlled in the Falkland Islands under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework. In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Falkland Islands misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated June 29, 2026

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MDA

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. MDA, tenamphetamine, falls within Part 1, paragraph 1(c) of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 as alpha-methylphenethylamine with a methylenedioxy ring substituent.
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(c) of the Schedule reaches «any compound (not being methoxyphenamine or a compound for the time being specified in subparagraph (a) above) structurally derived from phenethylamine, an N-alkylphenethylamine, alpha-methylphenethylarmine, an N-alkyl-alpha-methylphenethylamine, alpha- ethylphenethylamine, or an N-alkyl-alpha-ethylphenethylamine by substitution in the ring to any extent with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylene-dioxy or halide substituents, whether or not further substituted in the ring by one or more other univalent substituents». MDA is 3,4-methylenedioxy-alpha-methylphenethylamine: the methylenedioxy group is an alkylenedioxy ring substituent on alpha-methylphenethylamine, one of the parent structures the limb names. The Schedule also names «N-Hydroxy-tenamphetamine», the N-hydroxy derivative of MDA, which is a different compound and was not relied on. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: It falls within Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, which repeats the same structural limb, and none of the possession or supply exceptions in regulations 8 to 10 names Schedule 1. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates it under section 7(4) of the Ordinance, and section 7(4) provides that «while there is in force such an order subsection (3) shall not apply to the drug specified in the order», so the power to let doctors prescribe and supply it is switched off and there is no prescription route.
Documentation: The controlling law for MDA in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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MDMA

Legal status: Controlled under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: MDMA is controlled in the Falkland Islands under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework. In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Falkland Islands misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated June 29, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Controlled under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Mescaline is controlled in the Falkland Islands under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework. In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Falkland Islands misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated June 29, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Part 1 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Methadone».
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule lists «Methadone», and the same list also names «Isomethadone», «Normethadone» and «Methadyl acetate»; paragraph 4 adds its salts, so methadone hydrochloride oral solution is covered. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Methadone is in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997. Regulation 10(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 provides that «a person may have in his possession any drug specified in Schedule 2 or 3 for administration for medical, dental or veterinary purposes in accordance with the directions of a practitioner». Its proviso provides that the paragraph «shall not have effect in the case of a person to whom the drug has been supplied by or on the prescription of a doctor if», first, «that person was then being supplied with any controlled drug by or on the prescription of another doctor and failed to disclose that fact to the first mentioned doctor before the supply by him or on his prescription», or, second, «that or any other person on his behalf made a declaration or statement, which was false in any particular, for the purpose of obtaining the supply or prescription». Section 2(1) of the Ordinance defines a practitioner as «a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner or veterinary surgeon» and a doctor as «a person entitled to practise as such in the Falkland Islands», and no provision of the Ordinance or the 1997 Regulations Order read in this run covers a prescription written outside the Falkland Islands. Schedule 2 drugs are not among those regulation 4(1) excepts from the import ban, so bringing methadone into the Falkland Islands falls under section 3(1) unless it is licensed. Section 3(2) of the Ordinance provides that the import ban «does not apply to the importation or exportation of a controlled drug in accordance with and in compliance with any condition attached to a licence issued by the Chief Medical Officer». The Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989 also adopts regulations made under the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 «Except insofar as the same may be inconsistent with the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 or with any regulations made thereunder»; which UK regulations that now carries was not settled in this run, and this cell does not rely on it.
Documentation: The controlling law for methadone in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 5, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Controlled under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Methamphetamine is controlled in the Falkland Islands under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework. In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Falkland Islands misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated June 29, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Class B controlled drug in the Falkland Islands, or Class A in a preparation designed for injection. Part 2 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Methaqualone».
Consequences if caught: Part 2, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule lists «Methaqualone» and its analogue «Mecloqualone»; paragraphs 2 to 4 add stereoisomers, salts and any preparation containing it. Part 1, paragraph 6 of the Schedule moves «Any preparation designed for administration by injection which includes a substance or product for the time being specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 3 of Part 2 of this Schedule» into Class A, so an injectable preparation carries the Class A penalties instead: up to 14 years and a level 10 fine, £125,000, for possession with intent to supply, supply or import, and 7 years and a level 8 fine, £25,000, for possession. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class B drug other than cannabis: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 5 years and a fine at level 6. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Methaqualone is printed in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997. Regulation 10(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 provides that «a person may have in his possession any drug specified in Schedule 2 or 3 for administration for medical, dental or veterinary purposes in accordance with the directions of a practitioner». Its proviso provides that the paragraph «shall not have effect in the case of a person to whom the drug has been supplied by or on the prescription of a doctor if», first, «that person was then being supplied with any controlled drug by or on the prescription of another doctor and failed to disclose that fact to the first mentioned doctor before the supply by him or on his prescription», or, second, «that or any other person on his behalf made a declaration or statement, which was false in any particular, for the purpose of obtaining the supply or prescription». Section 2(1) of the Ordinance defines a practitioner as «a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner or veterinary surgeon» and a doctor as «a person entitled to practise as such in the Falkland Islands», and no provision of the Ordinance or the 1997 Regulations Order read in this run covers a prescription written outside the Falkland Islands. Schedule 2 drugs are not among those regulation 4(1) excepts from the import ban, so bringing methaqualone into the Falkland Islands falls under section 3(1) unless it is licensed. Section 3(2) of the Ordinance provides that the import ban «does not apply to the importation or exportation of a controlled drug in accordance with and in compliance with any condition attached to a licence issued by the Chief Medical Officer». No current medicine containing methaqualone was looked for.
Documentation: The controlling law for methaqualone in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 5, 2026

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Class B controlled drug in the Falkland Islands, or Class A in a preparation designed for injection. Part 2 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Methylphenidate».
Consequences if caught: Part 2, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule lists «Methylphenidate» between «Methylamphetamine» and «Methylphenobarbitone»; paragraphs 2 to 4 add its stereoisomers, such as dexmethylphenidate, its salts, such as methylphenidate hydrochloride, and any preparation containing them. Part 1, paragraph 6 of the Schedule moves «Any preparation designed for administration by injection which includes a substance or product for the time being specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 3 of Part 2 of this Schedule» into Class A, so an injectable preparation carries the Class A penalties instead: up to 14 years and a level 10 fine, £125,000, for possession with intent to supply, supply or import, and 7 years and a level 8 fine, £25,000, for possession. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class B drug other than cannabis: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 5 years and a fine at level 6. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Methylphenidate is in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997. Regulation 10(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 provides that «a person may have in his possession any drug specified in Schedule 2 or 3 for administration for medical, dental or veterinary purposes in accordance with the directions of a practitioner». Its proviso provides that the paragraph «shall not have effect in the case of a person to whom the drug has been supplied by or on the prescription of a doctor if», first, «that person was then being supplied with any controlled drug by or on the prescription of another doctor and failed to disclose that fact to the first mentioned doctor before the supply by him or on his prescription», or, second, «that or any other person on his behalf made a declaration or statement, which was false in any particular, for the purpose of obtaining the supply or prescription». Section 2(1) of the Ordinance defines a practitioner as «a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner or veterinary surgeon» and a doctor as «a person entitled to practise as such in the Falkland Islands», and no provision of the Ordinance or the 1997 Regulations Order read in this run covers a prescription written outside the Falkland Islands. Schedule 2 drugs are not among those regulation 4(1) excepts from the import ban, so bringing methylphenidate into the Falkland Islands falls under section 3(1) unless it is licensed. Section 3(2) of the Ordinance provides that the import ban «does not apply to the importation or exportation of a controlled drug in accordance with and in compliance with any condition attached to a licence issued by the Chief Medical Officer». The Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989 also adopts regulations made under the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 «Except insofar as the same may be inconsistent with the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 or with any regulations made thereunder»; which UK regulations that now carries was not settled in this run, and this cell does not rely on it.
Documentation: The controlling law for methylphenidate in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 5, 2026

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Morphine

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Part 1 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Morphine». A preparation of medicinal opium or of morphine containing not more than 0.2 per cent. of morphine calculated as anhydrous morphine base, compounded so that the opium or, as the case may be, the morphine cannot be recovered by readily applicable means or in a yield which would constitute a risk to health, and a mixture of such a preparation of which none of the other ingredients is a controlled drug, is excepted from the import and possession bans by Schedule 5 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997.
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule lists «Morphine» and «Morphine methobromide, morphine N-oxide and other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives», and paragraphs 2 to 5 add its stereoisomers, esters, ethers, salts and preparations. Paragraphs 3 and 9 of Schedule 5 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 except a preparation of medicinal opium or of morphine containing not more than 0.2 per cent. of morphine calculated as anhydrous morphine base, compounded so that the opium or, as the case may be, the morphine cannot be recovered by readily applicable means or in a yield which would constitute a risk to health, and a mixture of such a preparation of which none of the other ingredients is a controlled drug, and regulation 4(1) and 4(2)(b) lift the import, export and possession bans for it; the penalties below apply to morphine and to preparations outside those limits. For a preparation inside those limits only importation and exportation (section 3(1)) and simple possession (section 5(1)) are lifted; supplying it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)), permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) and attempt or incitement (section 17) remain offences, unless an exception in regulation 5, 6, 7(1), 8 or 11 of the 1997 Order applies. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Morphine is in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997. Regulation 10(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 provides that «a person may have in his possession any drug specified in Schedule 2 or 3 for administration for medical, dental or veterinary purposes in accordance with the directions of a practitioner». Its proviso provides that the paragraph «shall not have effect in the case of a person to whom the drug has been supplied by or on the prescription of a doctor if», first, «that person was then being supplied with any controlled drug by or on the prescription of another doctor and failed to disclose that fact to the first mentioned doctor before the supply by him or on his prescription», or, second, «that or any other person on his behalf made a declaration or statement, which was false in any particular, for the purpose of obtaining the supply or prescription». Section 2(1) of the Ordinance defines a practitioner as «a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner or veterinary surgeon» and a doctor as «a person entitled to practise as such in the Falkland Islands», and no provision of the Ordinance or the 1997 Regulations Order read in this run covers a prescription written outside the Falkland Islands. Schedule 2 drugs are not among those regulation 4(1) excepts from the import ban, so bringing morphine into the Falkland Islands falls under section 3(1) unless it is licensed, except a preparation within Schedule 5 described below. Section 3(2) of the Ordinance provides that the import ban «does not apply to the importation or exportation of a controlled drug in accordance with and in compliance with any condition attached to a licence issued by the Chief Medical Officer». Paragraph 3 of Schedule 5 covers «Any preparation of medicinal opium or of morphine containing (in either case) not more than 0.2 per cent. of morphine calculated as anhydrous morphine base, being a preparation compounded with one or more other active or inert ingredients in such a way that the opium or, as the case may be, the morphine, cannot be recovered by readily applicable means or in a yield which would constitute a risk to health», and paragraph 9 adds «Any mixture containing one or more of the preparations specified in paragraphs 1 to 8, being a mixture of which none of the other ingredients is a controlled drug». Regulation 4(1) and 4(2)(b) lift the import, export and possession bans for the drugs in Schedule 5. A morphine preparation within paragraph 3 or 9 therefore needs, under the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance and the 1997 Order, neither a licence nor a prescription to be imported or possessed. The Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989 also adopts regulations made under the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 «Except insofar as the same may be inconsistent with the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 or with any regulations made thereunder»; which UK regulations that now carries was not settled in this run, and this cell does not rely on it.
Documentation: The controlling law for morphine in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 5, 2026

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Class C controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Part 3 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Nimetazepam»; importing it for one's own use, and possessing it as a medicine, are excepted from the Misuse of Drugs offences by the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, but supplying it is an offence.
Consequences if caught: Part 3, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule, headed «CLASS C DRUGS», lists «Nimetazepam» among the benzodiazepines, and paragraphs 2 to 4 add its stereoisomers, salts and preparations. It is listed between «Midazolam» and «Nitrazepam». Nimetazepam falls within the Schedule 4 possession exception when held as a medicinal product, and the penalties below bite on supply, on possession with intent to supply, and on possession other than in a medicinal product. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class C drug in Schedule 4 to the 1997 Regulations Order: importing or exporting it is not a Misuse of Drugs offence, because regulation 4(1) switches section 3(1) off for Schedule 4 drugs, so the Misuse of Drugs import prohibition does not apply to it. Separately, the Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994 prohibits importing any medicine «for the purpose of the retail sale within the Falkland Islands of that medicine» unless the importation «has been authorised in writing by the Chief Medical Officer»; it does not apply to medicines imported for a person's own use. Importing a medicine for retail sale in breach of that Proclamation, with intent to evade it, can be charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003, which section 43(4) punishes with a fine of up to level 12, £625,000, or up to 7 years' imprisonment. Producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 5 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 6; possessing it other than in a medicinal product (section 5(1)) carries up to 2 years and a fine at level 4. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Nimetazepam is in Schedule 4 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997. Regulation 4(1) provides that section 3(1) of the Ordinance «shall not have effect in relation to the drugs specified in Schedules 4 and 5», and regulation 4(2)(a) that section 5(1) shall not have effect in relation to «any drug specified in Schedule 4 which is contained in a medicinal product». So importing nimetazepam for one's own use and possessing it as a medicine are not Misuse of Drugs offences, with or without a prescription, while importing it for retail sale needs the Chief Medical Officer's written authorisation under the Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994; supplying it to another person remains an offence under section 4 unless one of the regulation 9 exceptions for practitioners, pharmacists and hospitals applies. Regulation 2 of the 1997 Regulations Order gives medicinal product «the same meaning as in the Medicines Act 1968»; whether an illicitly made tablet meets that definition was not settled in this run.
Documentation: The controlling law for nimetazepam in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, sections 2 (relevant enactment), 43(3) and (4) and 163(2) and (4) · legislation.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Part 1 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Oxycodone».
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule lists «Oxycodone» between «Opium, whether raw, prepared or medicinal» and «Oxymorphone»; paragraph 4 adds its salts, so oxycodone hydrochloride tablets are covered, and paragraph 5 any preparation containing it. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Oxycodone is in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997. Regulation 10(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 provides that «a person may have in his possession any drug specified in Schedule 2 or 3 for administration for medical, dental or veterinary purposes in accordance with the directions of a practitioner». Its proviso provides that the paragraph «shall not have effect in the case of a person to whom the drug has been supplied by or on the prescription of a doctor if», first, «that person was then being supplied with any controlled drug by or on the prescription of another doctor and failed to disclose that fact to the first mentioned doctor before the supply by him or on his prescription», or, second, «that or any other person on his behalf made a declaration or statement, which was false in any particular, for the purpose of obtaining the supply or prescription». Section 2(1) of the Ordinance defines a practitioner as «a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner or veterinary surgeon» and a doctor as «a person entitled to practise as such in the Falkland Islands», and no provision of the Ordinance or the 1997 Regulations Order read in this run covers a prescription written outside the Falkland Islands. Schedule 2 drugs are not among those regulation 4(1) excepts from the import ban, so bringing oxycodone into the Falkland Islands falls under section 3(1) unless it is licensed. Section 3(2) of the Ordinance provides that the import ban «does not apply to the importation or exportation of a controlled drug in accordance with and in compliance with any condition attached to a licence issued by the Chief Medical Officer». The Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989 also adopts regulations made under the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 «Except insofar as the same may be inconsistent with the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 or with any regulations made thereunder»; which UK regulations that now carries was not settled in this run, and this cell does not rely on it.
Documentation: The controlling law for oxycodone in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 5, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: Controlled under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: PCP is controlled in the Falkland Islands under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework. In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Falkland Islands misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated June 29, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Psilocybin is controlled in the Falkland Islands under the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework. In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In the Falkland Islands, drugs fall under the Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Falkland Islands law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Falkland Islands misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework (UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated June 29, 2026

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THC-P

Legal status: Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. THC-P, tetrahydrocannabiphorol, is a 3-alkyl homologue of a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol, within the «Cannabinol derivatives» named in Part 1 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987.
Consequences if caught: Part 1, paragraph 1(a) lists «Cannabinol derivatives». Part 4 of the Schedule defines cannabinol derivatives as «the following substances, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin, namely tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives». THC-P is delta-9-THC with a heptyl chain in the 3 position where THC has a pentyl chain, which makes it a 3-alkyl homologue of a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol. A search for cannabiphorol returned 0 matches; the placement rests on the Part 4 definition. The Misuse of Drugs (Exception of Controlled Drugs - Tetrahydrocannabinol) Order 2022 excepts certain products in which no component part contains more than one milligram of «tetrahydrocannabinol»; whether that word reaches THC-P, which is tetrahydrocannabiphorol, was not settled in this run. Either way, article 3(a) limits the exception to a product that «is not designed for administration of tetrahydrocannabinol to a human being or animal», so a vape, oil or edible made to deliver it falls outside. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Cannabinol and its derivatives are in Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, except dronabinol, which is in Schedule 2, and none of the possession or supply exceptions in regulations 8 to 10 names Schedule 1. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates it under section 7(4) of the Ordinance, and section 7(4) provides that «while there is in force such an order subsection (3) shall not apply to the drug specified in the order», so the power to let doctors prescribe and supply it is switched off and there is no prescription route.
Documentation: The controlling law for THC-P in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Class C controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Part 3 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Alprazolam»; importing it for one's own use, and possessing it as a medicine, are excepted from the Misuse of Drugs offences by the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, but supplying it is an offence.
Consequences if caught: Part 3, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule, headed «CLASS C DRUGS», lists «Alprazolam» among the benzodiazepines, and paragraphs 2 to 4 add its stereoisomers, salts and preparations. Alprazolam is the first entry in that list, ahead of «Aminorex». Because it is in Schedule 4 to the 1997 Regulations Order, alprazolam contained in a medicinal product is outside the possession offence, and the penalties below bite on supply, on possession with intent to supply, and on alprazolam held other than in a medicinal product, such as bulk powder. Regulation 2 of the 1997 Regulations Order gives medicinal product «the same meaning as in the Medicines Act 1968»; whether an illicitly made tablet meets that definition was not settled in this run. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class C drug in Schedule 4 to the 1997 Regulations Order: importing or exporting it is not a Misuse of Drugs offence, because regulation 4(1) switches section 3(1) off for Schedule 4 drugs, so the Misuse of Drugs import prohibition does not apply to it. Separately, the Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994 prohibits importing any medicine «for the purpose of the retail sale within the Falkland Islands of that medicine» unless the importation «has been authorised in writing by the Chief Medical Officer»; it does not apply to medicines imported for a person's own use. Importing a medicine for retail sale in breach of that Proclamation, with intent to evade it, can be charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003, which section 43(4) punishes with a fine of up to level 12, £625,000, or up to 7 years' imprisonment. Producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 5 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 6; possessing it other than in a medicinal product (section 5(1)) carries up to 2 years and a fine at level 4. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical: Alprazolam is in Schedule 4 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997. Regulation 4(1) provides that section 3(1) of the Ordinance «shall not have effect in relation to the drugs specified in Schedules 4 and 5», and regulation 4(2)(a) that section 5(1) shall not have effect in relation to «any drug specified in Schedule 4 which is contained in a medicinal product». So importing alprazolam for one's own use and possessing it as a medicine are not Misuse of Drugs offences, with or without a prescription, while importing it for retail sale needs the Chief Medical Officer's written authorisation under the Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994; supplying it to another person remains an offence under section 4 unless one of the regulation 9 exceptions for practitioners, pharmacists and hospitals applies. Regulation 2 of the 1997 Regulations Order gives medicinal product «the same meaning as in the Medicines Act 1968»; whether an illicitly made tablet meets that definition was not settled in this run.
Documentation: The controlling law for alprazolam in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.

Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, sections 2 (relevant enactment), 43(3) and (4) and 163(2) and (4) · legislation.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026

Xanax (Alprazolam) in Falkland Islands (UK), full detail →

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
2-FDCK	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
25I-NBOMe	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
3-MMC	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
6-APB	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Alcohol	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Amyl Nitrite	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Caffeine	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
CBD	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
DXM	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Ephedrine	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Etizolam	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Gabapentin	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
GBL	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
HHC	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Ketamine	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Khat	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Kratom	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
MDPV	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Memantine	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Mephedrone (4-MMC)	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Methylone	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Mitragynine	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Modafinil	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
MXE	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Nicotine	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Nitrous Oxide	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Opium	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Peyote	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Phenibut	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Pink Cocaine / Tusi	Not confirmed. The status of pink cocaine in the Falkland Islands is not confirmed on this record.
Poppers	Not confirmed. The status of poppers in the Falkland Islands is not confirmed on this record.
Pregabalin	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Quetiapine	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Salvia divinorum	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Tobacco	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Tramadol	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Xylazine	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...
Zolpidem	Not confirmed, the Falkland Islands' own misuse-of-drugs / crimes ordinance framework is the governing drug law; the...

Legal status in Falkland Islands (UK)

Confirmed legal status

2C-B

2C-E

2C-I

2C-T-7

4-AcO-DMT

4-HO-MET

5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Adderall

Amphetamine

Ayahuasca

Barbiturates

Benzodiazepines

Buprenorphine

Cannabinol

Cannabis / THC

Cathinone

Clonazepam

Cocaine

Codeine

Crack Cocaine

Delta-8-THC

Diazepam

DMT

DOM

Fentanyl

GHB

Heroin

Hydrocodone

Lorazepam

LSA (Morning Glory)

LSD

MDA

MDMA

Mescaline

Methadone

Methamphetamine

Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Methylphenidate

Morphine

Nimetazepam

Oxycodone

PCP

Psilocybin

THC-P

Xanax (Alprazolam)

Not individually verified

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