Legal status in Gibraltar (UK)

Per-substance legal status for Gibraltar (UK), from sourced statutes where available. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.

24 confirmed substances64 not individually verifiedLast updated September 16, 2026

Confirmed legal status

2C-B

Legal status: Controlled under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: 2C-B is controlled in Gibraltar under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences). In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: recreational cannabis is illegal, while medical cannabis has been permitted since October 2019 under prescription; sale and cultivation outside the medical framework remain prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Class B controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Amphetamine is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class B drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

Amphetamine in Gibraltar (UK), full detail →

Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Benzodiazepines is controlled in Gibraltar under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences). In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: recreational cannabis is illegal, while medical cannabis has been permitted since October 2019 under prescription; sale and cultivation outside the medical framework remain prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Class B controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Cannabis is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class B drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Cannabis is a Class B drug in Gibraltar, exactly as in the United Kingdom. The class is the same and the supply maximum is not: fourteen years there, life here. Cultivation of a cannabis plant is its own offence under section 508(2) and is not set by class at all: Schedule 8 gives it in the general column, at fourteen years on indictment and nine months summarily. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

Cannabis / THC in Gibraltar (UK), full detail →

Cocaine

Legal status: Class A controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Cocaine is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class A drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Class B controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Codeine is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class B drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

Codeine in Gibraltar (UK), full detail →

Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Class A controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Crack cocaine is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class A drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Crack is not separately named anywhere in the Act, and the word appears in it zero times. Cocaine is the Class A entry that reaches it, alongside coca leaf and ecgonine. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

Crack Cocaine in Gibraltar (UK), full detail →

DMT

Legal status: Controlled under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: DMT is controlled in Gibraltar under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences). In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: recreational cannabis is illegal, while medical cannabis has been permitted since October 2019 under prescription; sale and cultivation outside the medical framework remain prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Class A controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Fentanyl is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class A drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

Fentanyl in Gibraltar (UK), full detail →

GHB

Legal status: Controlled under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: GHB is controlled in Gibraltar under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences). In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: recreational cannabis is illegal, while medical cannabis has been permitted since October 2019 under prescription; sale and cultivation outside the medical framework remain prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

GHB in Gibraltar (UK), full detail →

Heroin

Legal status: Class A controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Diamorphine is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class A drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

Heroin in Gibraltar (UK), full detail →

Ketamine

Legal status: Class C controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Ketamine is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class C drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Ketamine is a Class C drug in Gibraltar and a Class B drug in the United Kingdom, read from the consolidated Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. Possession on indictment is therefore capped at two years here against five there. When either list moved, and in which direction, is not stated: that would need the amending orders, and they were not read. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: Class A controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Lysergide is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class A drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

LSD in Gibraltar (UK), full detail →

MDMA

Legal status: Controlled under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: MDMA is controlled in Gibraltar under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences). In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: recreational cannabis is illegal, while medical cannabis has been permitted since October 2019 under prescription; sale and cultivation outside the medical framework remain prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Class A controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Mescaline is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class A drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

Mescaline in Gibraltar (UK), full detail →

Methadone

Legal status: Class A controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Methadone is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class A drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

Methadone in Gibraltar (UK), full detail →

Methamphetamine

Legal status: Class B controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Methylamphetamine is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class B drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Methylamphetamine is a Class B drug in Gibraltar and a Class A drug in the United Kingdom, read from the consolidated Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. Possession on indictment is therefore capped at five years here against seven there. Supply is life in both, but by different routes: Class A in the United Kingdom, and the Gibraltar rule that Class B supply is also life. When either list moved is not stated here, because the amending orders were not read. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

Methamphetamine in Gibraltar (UK), full detail →

Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Class B controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Methaqualone is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class B drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

Methaqualone (Quaaludes) in Gibraltar (UK), full detail →

Methylphenidate

Legal status: Class B controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Methylphenidate is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class B drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

Methylphenidate in Gibraltar (UK), full detail →

Morphine

Legal status: Class A controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Morphine is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class A drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

Morphine in Gibraltar (UK), full detail →

Opium

Legal status: Class A controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Opium is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class A drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

Opium in Gibraltar (UK), full detail →

Oxycodone

Legal status: Class A controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Oxycodone is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class A drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: Class A controlled drug under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011. Phencyclidine is named in Schedule 5, the list of controlled drugs made under sections 500(1) and 502, among the Class A drugs. Gibraltar is not governed by the United Kingdom Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and its punishments differ from it.
Consequences if caught: Gibraltar does use the three classes, and to a reader this is the territory that looks most like the United Kingdom: the same Class A, Class B and Class C, the same offence structure, and drug law set out at sections 500 to 524 of the Crimes Act 2011 rather than in a Misuse of Drugs Act. The separate Drugs (Misuse) Act is marked repealed on the Gibraltar law portal. The resemblance stops at the punishment table. Schedule 8, made under section 524, sets production under section 504(2), supply under section 504(3) and possession with intent to supply under section 506(3) at life imprisonment or a fine, or both, on indictment, and it does so for a Class A drug and for a Class B drug alike. Only Class C is capped, at fourteen years. In the United Kingdom the equivalent maximum for a Class B drug is fourteen years. So supplying a Class B drug in Gibraltar carries life where the same conduct in the United Kingdom does not, and a reader who assumes the 1971 Act applies will understate the exposure by the whole distance between fourteen years and life. Simple possession, the section 506(2) offence, is the part that does match. On indictment it is seven years for a Class A drug, five years for a Class B drug and two years for a Class C drug, which are the United Kingdom figures. Summary conviction is twelve months for Class A and Class B and nine months for Class C, with a fine at level 5 or level 4 on the standard scale. Every statement above about which class a drug is in is true as at a date, and the date is this. Section 502(2) lets the Minister by order add a substance to, or remove one from, any of Parts I to III of Schedule 5, so a class moves without the Act changing. The consolidation read here was fetched from the Gibraltar law portal on 16 September 2026 and carries no out of date marker, and the latest Legal Notice appearing anywhere in its text is LN. 2021/328. Which notice last touched Schedule 5 is not stated in the text and is not asserted here, so this cell does not rule out a later order.
If prescribed / medical: The Act works by exempting things done under regulations and licences rather than by creating a defence on the face of the drug offences. The Gibraltar regulations that authorise a prescribed supply were not read for this cell, so the conditions attaching to one are not stated here.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed controlled medicine in its original dispensed packaging with the prescription. Nothing read here establishes a personal import allowance for Gibraltar, and the United Kingdom Home Office allowance does not apply: Gibraltar is a separate jurisdiction with its own statute. Gibraltar has a land frontier with Spain and the two regimes do not resemble each other. Crossing it with a controlled drug is an importation or exportation in one direction or the other, and what is lawful on one side of the frontier decides nothing about the other. This cell states Gibraltar law only. The Spanish position is not asserted here, because the Spanish instrument that would settle it was not located.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011, Schedule 5 (controlled drugs) and Schedule 8 (prosecution and punishment of offences), sections 504, 506 and 524 · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · Updated September 16, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), possession, sale and trafficking are offences and the precise schedule and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Psilocybin is controlled in Gibraltar under Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences). In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: recreational cannabis is illegal, while medical cannabis has been permitted since October 2019 under prescription; sale and cultivation outside the medical framework remain prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Gibraltar Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) · gibraltarlaws.gov.gi · loc.gov · Updated June 28, 2026

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Not individually verified

64 substances are not individually verified for Gibraltar (UK)

For these the governing national drug law is cited, but we have not verified that the substance specifically is scheduled under it. Treat them as unanswered, not as legal. Confirm with Gibraltar (UK)’s drug authority or your embassy.

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
2-FDCK	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
25I-NBOMe	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
2C-E	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
2C-I	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
2C-T-7	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
3-MMC	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
4-AcO-DMT	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
6-APB	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Adderall	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Alcohol	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Amyl Nitrite	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Ayahuasca	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Barbiturates	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Buprenorphine	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Caffeine	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Cannabinol	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Cathinone	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
CBD	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Clonazepam	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Delta-8-THC	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Diazepam	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
DOM	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
DXM	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Ephedrine	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Etizolam	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Gabapentin	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
GBL	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
HHC	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Hydrocodone	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Khat	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Kratom	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Lorazepam	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
LSA (Morning Glory)	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
MDA	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
MDPV	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Memantine	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Mephedrone (4-MMC)	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Methylone	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Mitragynine	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Modafinil	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
MXE	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Nicotine	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Nimetazepam	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Nitrous Oxide	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Peyote	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Phenibut	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Pink Cocaine / Tusi	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Poppers	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Pregabalin	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Quetiapine	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Salvia divinorum	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
THC-P	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Tobacco	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Tramadol	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Xanax (Alprazolam)	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Xylazine	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...
Zolpidem	Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific...

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