Legal status in Jordan

Per-substance legal status for Jordan, 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.

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Confirmed legal status

1P-LSD

Legal status: Whether 1P-LSD is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ 1p-lsd: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for 1P-LSD: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were 1P-LSD, 1-propionyl-LSD and 1-propionyl lysergide. LSD is expressly listed in Schedule 5 and lysergic acid appears in Schedule 11, and neither entry is 1P-LSD: the 1-propionyl substitution changes the named molecule, so the LSD entry cannot be extended to it. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Schedules also move. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette, and one such decision added pentyl and amyl nitrite to Schedule 11 in July 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. LSD sits in Schedule 5 and lysergic acid in Schedule 11, but neither of those entries is 1P-LSD, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open and two branches follow. If 1P-LSD is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved. Article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory on its own wording where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, and at any quantity, because no weight threshold appears in either article. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess. A traveller should read the harsher branch, because what is deferred here is what could be read in September 2026 and not what Jordan permits.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for 1P-LSD, because the control status that would drive it is not established. That is not a finding that the substance is free of medical regulation. A substance can be a prescription only medicine in Jordan without appearing on a Law No. 23 schedule at all, and 1P-LSD has no recognised therapeutic route in any event. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for 1P-LSD, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging if the material was dispensed to you, since that costs nothing and helps whichever way the classification falls, and do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry the substance. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for 1P-LSD after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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2-FDCK

Legal status: Whether 2-FDCK is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ 2-fdck: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for 2-FDCK: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were 2-FDCK, 2-fluorodeschloroketamine and 2-fluoro-2-oxo-PCE, and the ketamine and arylcyclohexylamine entries were checked alongside them. Ketamine itself is listed in Schedule 9, but the fluorinated deschloro analogue was not located by its names or by its chemical descriptors, and a listed parent does not carry an unlisted analogue with it. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Schedules also move. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. Ketamine is in Schedule 9 and 2-FDCK is not the ketamine entry, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open and two branches follow. If 2-FDCK is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved. Article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory on its own wording where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, and at any quantity, because no weight threshold appears in either article. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess. A traveller should read the harsher branch, because what is deferred here is what could be read in September 2026 and not what Jordan permits.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for 2-FDCK, because the control status that would drive it is not established. That is not a finding that the substance is free of medical regulation. Ketamine has a genuine clinical route in Jordan and 2-FDCK does not, so nothing about the parent compound's medical standing transfers to this analogue. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for 2-FDCK, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry the substance, and do not rely on a ketamine prescription to cover it: ketamine is expressly scheduled at Schedule 9 and a prescription for it names that medicine and not this analogue. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for 2-FDCK after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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25I-NBOMe

Legal status: 25I-NBOMe is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. 25I-NBOMe is expressly listed at Schedule 5, printed «الجدول رقم (5): 25I-NBOMe», by its exact benzylated phenethylamine identity, so the result is not being inferred from 2C-I or from another visually similar name. The distinction is chemical and not cosmetic: this compound carries an additional 2-methoxybenzyl substituent that 2C-I does not, which is why 2C-I remains unresolved on its own row while this one is closed. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a further NBOMe compound by a Gazette decision.
Consequences if caught: The Schedule 5 placement makes 25I-NBOMe a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. That matters especially here, since this compound is active at sub-milligram doses and is usually carried on blotter that is sold as LSD, so a person may be holding an expressly scheduled substance they did not intend to buy.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for 25I-NBOMe in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 5 of Law No. 23 of 2016, has no medical use anywhere, and is among the more dangerous compounds in this table pharmacologically as well as legally. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes 25I-NBOMe lawful to carry, and none that a traveller could produce for it. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. The point worth carrying from this row is the mis-sale problem: material bought as LSD or as 2C-I can analyse as this compound, which is expressly listed here, and the buyer's belief about what it was does not change the entry applied. The Schedule 5 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 5 entry for 25I-NBOMe «الجدول رقم (5): 25I-NBOMe», matched on its exact benzylated phenethylamine identity, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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2C-B

Legal status: 2C-B is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. 2C-B is listed at Schedule 6, printed «الجدول رقم (6): 2C-B», and the schedule identifies it by its full chemical name, 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, so the result rests on that identification rather than on a family-name resemblance. That distinction decides several neighbouring rows in this table: 2C-E, 2C-I and 2C-T-7 are different molecules that the searchable schedule does not name, and none of them inherits this entry, because Jordan lists members of the family and not the family itself. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so a further 2C compound could be added by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: 2C-B's Schedule 6 listing makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. Note also that material sold under the pink cocaine label frequently contains a mixture in which 2C-B is not present at all, so what is on the schedule and what is in the packet are two separate questions and only the second is settled by analysis.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for 2C-B in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 6 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and has no dispensed medical use there. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes 2C-B lawful to carry, and none that a traveller could produce for it. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. The Schedule 6 placement, identified by the chemical name 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 6 entry for 2C-B «الجدول رقم (6): 2C-B», identified by the chemical name 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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2C-E

Legal status: Whether 2C-E is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ 2c-e: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for 2C-E: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were 2C-E and 2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethylphenethylamine, compared against 2C-B and the other phenethylamine entries. 2C-B is expressly scheduled by its chemical name, 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, and the ethyl and bromo compounds are different scheduled identities, so the 2C-B entry cannot be stretched to cover 2C-E. No generic 2C-series clause was established either. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Schedules also move. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. 2C-B is in Schedule 6 under its full chemical name and 2C-E is a different molecule, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open and two branches follow. If 2C-E is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved. Article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory on its own wording where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, and at any quantity, because no weight threshold appears in either article. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess. A traveller should read the harsher branch, because what is deferred here is what could be read in September 2026 and not what Jordan permits.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for 2C-E, because the control status that would drive it is not established. That is not a finding that the substance is free of medical regulation, and 2C-E has no recognised therapeutic route in any event. The nearest thing to a comparator, 2C-B, is a controlled substance in Jordan rather than a medicine, so there is nothing in the family that suggests a prescribing route for this one. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for 2C-E, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry the substance, and note that the sibling compound 2C-B is expressly scheduled, so a mixed or mislabelled product can put you on the other branch entirely. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for 2C-E after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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2C-I

Legal status: Whether 2C-I is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ 2c-i: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for 2C-I: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were 2C-I and 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenethylamine, and the 25I-NBOMe entry was reviewed separately rather than borrowed. 25I-NBOMe is expressly listed in Schedule 5 by its exact benzylated phenethylamine identity, and it carries an additional 2-methoxybenzyl substituent that 2C-I does not, so the shared iodine cannot close this row. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Schedules also move. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. 25I-NBOMe is expressly in Schedule 5 and 2C-I is its unbenzylated relative rather than the same entry, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open and two branches follow. If 2C-I is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved. Article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory on its own wording where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, and at any quantity, because no weight threshold appears in either article. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess. A traveller should read the harsher branch, because what is deferred here is what could be read in September 2026 and not what Jordan permits.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for 2C-I, because the control status that would drive it is not established. That is not a finding that the substance is free of medical regulation, and 2C-I has no recognised therapeutic route in any event. The compound it is most often confused with, 25I-NBOMe, is expressly scheduled here and is not a medicine either, so neither identity offers a medical route. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for 2C-I, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry the substance. The practical hazard on this row is identification rather than classification: material sold as 2C-I is frequently 25I-NBOMe, which is expressly scheduled, and a laboratory reading the sample rather than the label decides which branch applies. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for 2C-I after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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2C-T-7

Legal status: Whether 2C-T-7 is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ 2c-t-7: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for 2C-T-7: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were 2C-T-7, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-(n)-propylthiophenethylamine and the fragment propylthio. No exact propylthio phenethylamine entry was found, and no generic 2C-series clause was established that would sweep the family in, which matters because the schedules do carry named members of it, 2C-B among them. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Schedules also move. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. The schedules control named members of the 2C family rather than the family as such, and no 2C-T-7 entry and no family clause was recovered, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open and two branches follow. If 2C-T-7 is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved. Article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory on its own wording where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, and at any quantity, because no weight threshold appears in either article. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess. A traveller should read the harsher branch, because what is deferred here is what could be read in September 2026 and not what Jordan permits.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for 2C-T-7, because the control status that would drive it is not established. That is not a finding that the substance is free of medical regulation, and 2C-T-7 has no recognised therapeutic route in any event: no licensed medicine has ever contained it, in Jordan or anywhere, so there is no dispensing practice to describe even in outline. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for 2C-T-7, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry the substance, and do not rely on the family name: 2C-B, the best known member, is expressly scheduled, so a product labelled loosely as a 2C compound can land on the scheduled branch. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for 2C-T-7 after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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3-MMC

Legal status: 3-MMC is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. 3-MMC is listed at Schedule 6, printed «الجدول رقم (6): 3-MMC», and the schedule identifies it as 3-methylmethcathinone, 2-(methylamino)-1-(3-methylphenyl)propan-1-one, which fixes the isomer actually controlled. That precision is the point of the row. 3-MMC came to market as a replacement for mephedrone once mephedrone was controlled, and Jordan has listed both, so the substitution strategy that produced the compound does not work against this schedule. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.»
Consequences if caught: 3-MMC's Schedule 6 listing makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. The expectation to correct on this row is the idea that a newer analogue is a safer legal bet: this one is named in the schedule by its full chemical identity.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for 3-MMC in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 6 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and has no dispensed medical use there or anywhere, and its availability from research chemical vendors is not a permission of any kind. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes 3-MMC lawful to carry, and a vendor's research chemical labelling or a not for human consumption statement is not one. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. The Schedule 6 placement, identified as 3-methylmethcathinone, was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 6 entry for 3-MMC «الجدول رقم (6): 3-MMC», identified as 3-methylmethcathinone, 2-(methylamino)-1-(3-methylphenyl)propan-1-one, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · mephedrone is separately listed in the same schedule as 4-MMC · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: Whether 4-AcO-DMT is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ 4-aco-dmt: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for 4-AcO-DMT: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were 4-AcO-DMT, O-acetylpsilocin, psilacetin and 4-acetoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, compared against the DMT and psilocybin entries. Both of those are expressly in Schedule 5, and neither of them is this compound: the acetoxy substitution is chemically material, so 4-AcO-DMT was not collapsed into either. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Schedules also move. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. DMT and psilocybin are both in Schedule 5 and 4-AcO-DMT is neither of them, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open and two branches follow. If 4-AcO-DMT is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved. Article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory on its own wording where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, and at any quantity, because no weight threshold appears in either article. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess. A traveller should read the harsher branch, because what is deferred here is what could be read in September 2026 and not what Jordan permits.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for 4-AcO-DMT, because the control status that would drive it is not established. That is not a finding that the substance is free of medical regulation, and 4-AcO-DMT has no recognised therapeutic route in any event. It is marketed online as a legal alternative to psilocybin, which is a sales claim about another country's list rather than a medical or regulatory status, and psilocybin itself is expressly scheduled in Jordan. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for 4-AcO-DMT, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry the substance. The compound deacetylates to psilocin in the body and is sold alongside psilocybin material, both of which raise the chance that a sample is read as a scheduled tryptamine rather than as this one. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for 4-AcO-DMT after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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4-HO-MET

Legal status: Whether 4-HO-MET is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ 4-ho-met: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for 4-HO-MET: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were 4-HO-MET, metocin and 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine. This row produced a near miss that was examined and rejected: the search returned a separate hit for 4-HO-MiPT, and that hit was rejected because it is a different N-substituted tryptamine, an isopropyl homologue rather than the ethyl compound. What 4-HO-MiPT's own schedule position is was not established either, and this cell does not assert one for it. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Schedules also move. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. The only thing the search returned near this compound was a hit for 4-HO-MiPT, which was rejected as a different molecule, so nothing has been matched to 4-HO-MET and the placement that the penalty depends on is still open. Two branches follow. If 4-HO-MET is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved. Article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory on its own wording where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, and at any quantity, because no weight threshold appears in either article. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess. A traveller should read the harsher branch, because what is deferred here is what could be read in September 2026 and not what Jordan permits.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for 4-HO-MET, because the control status that would drive it is not established. That is not a finding that the substance is free of medical regulation, and 4-HO-MET has no recognised therapeutic route in any event. The one near neighbour the search surfaced, 4-HO-MiPT, is not a medicine either and its own status was not established, so there is no prescribing route to borrow from it in any direction. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for 4-HO-MET, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry the substance. Substituted tryptamines of this family are sold interchangeably and mislabelled routinely, and several of them, psilocybin and DMT among them, are expressly scheduled here, so a sample can be read onto the scheduled branch without anything about your own intention changing. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for 4-HO-MET after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: Whether 5-MeO-DMT is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ 5-meo-dmt: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for 5-MeO-DMT: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were 5-MeO-DMT, 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine and O-methylbufotenine, compared against the DMT entry. DMT is expressly in Schedule 5 as «ثنائي ميثيل تريبتامين», and the 5-methoxy substituent creates a distinct chemical identity that was not found in the last searchable schedule, so the DMT entry was not extended to it. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Schedules also move. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. DMT is expressly in Schedule 5 and 5-MeO-DMT is a separate molecule that the schedule does not name, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open and two branches follow. If 5-MeO-DMT is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved. Article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory on its own wording where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, and at any quantity, because no weight threshold appears in either article. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess. A traveller should read the harsher branch, because what is deferred here is what could be read in September 2026 and not what Jordan permits.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for 5-MeO-DMT, because the control status that would drive it is not established. That is not a finding that the substance is free of medical regulation, and 5-MeO-DMT has no recognised therapeutic route in Jordan in any event. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for 5-MeO-DMT, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry the substance. Material of this kind travels as toad secretion, as a synthesised powder, or inside a plant preparation, and a preparation that also contains DMT is on the scheduled branch whatever the label says. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for 5-MeO-DMT after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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6-APB

Legal status: Whether 6-APB is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ 6-apb: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for 6-APB: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were 6-APB, 6-(2-aminopropyl)benzofuran and benzofury, and the benzofuran entries and positional analogues were reviewed. A neighbouring benzofuran analogue cannot be substituted for this one without an exact entry or an established isomer clause that reaches the positional isomer, and neither was recovered. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Schedules also move. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. The question on this row is positional, and no isomer clause was found that would carry a neighbouring benzofuran entry across to the 6-position, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open and two branches follow. If 6-APB is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved. Article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory on its own wording where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, and at any quantity, because no weight threshold appears in either article. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess. A traveller should read the harsher branch, because what is deferred here is what could be read in September 2026 and not what Jordan permits.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for 6-APB, because the control status that would drive it is not established. That is not a finding that the substance is free of medical regulation, and 6-APB has no recognised therapeutic route in any event. It reached the market as a research chemical sold under the benzofury name and was banned outright in several countries without ever being licensed anywhere, so there is no prescribing practice to describe. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for 6-APB, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry the substance. Material sold under the benzofuran names is routinely a mixture, and MDA and MDMA, which sit alongside it in the same market, are both expressly in Schedule 5. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for 6-APB after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)

Legal status: Whether 7-Hydroxymitragynine is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ 7-hydroxymitragynine: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for 7-Hydroxymitragynine: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were 7-hydroxymitragynine, 7-OH-mitragynine and 7-hydroxy mitragynine, and the mitragynine and kratom terms were checked with them. Neither the metabolite name nor an exact chemical entry was located, and the parent alkaloid is itself unresolved on this dossier, so nothing upstream closes this row either. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Schedules also move. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. This is the one row in the kratom group where the compound is both a natural metabolite and a concentrated product ingredient, and neither the metabolite name nor a chemical entry was recovered, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open and two branches follow. If 7-Hydroxymitragynine is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved. Article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory on its own wording where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, and at any quantity, because no weight threshold appears in either article. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess. A traveller should read the harsher branch, because what is deferred here is what could be read in September 2026 and not what Jordan permits.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for 7-Hydroxymitragynine, because the control status that would drive it is not established. That is not a finding that the substance is free of medical regulation: a compound can be barred from a food supplement or a licensed medicine in Jordan without appearing on a Law No. 23 schedule at all, and concentrated 7-OH products are exactly the kind that a medicines or food regulator reaches first. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for 7-Hydroxymitragynine, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry the substance, and note that the narcotics schedules are not the only Jordanian control a concentrated alkaloid product can meet at a border. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for 7-Hydroxymitragynine after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Adderall is a brand name and not a printed schedule name, so the Jordanian result follows its controlled constituents. The product is a mixture of amphetamine and dexamphetamine salts, and those constituents are covered by Schedule 6, the dossier's mapping for this row printing «الجدول رقم (6): أملاح الأمفيتامين في أديرال», the Schedule 6 amphetamine salts in Adderall. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law, and the membership test is applied to the active ingredient rather than to the brand. The practical consequence is that formulation identity has to be checked rather than the brand name alone: a generic mixed amphetamine salts product, an immediate release and an extended release preparation are the same controlled constituents under different commercial descriptions. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.»
Consequences if caught: Adderall's constituents are Schedule 6 psychotropic substances, which puts the product inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», and the fact that it arrives in a pharmacy bottle changes nothing about which articles apply. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. The warning specific to this row is social rather than commercial: sharing a prescribed stimulant with a friend, a classmate or a colleague is a supply act on its face.
If prescribed / medical: Adderall is a prescribed treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy, and being a medicine does not lift the control, because the control attaches to the amphetamine salts it contains. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. The particular difficulty for this medicine is that prescriptions are often issued for long periods and dispensed in large counts, and a several month supply of a Schedule 6 substance looks different at a border from how it looks at a pharmacy counter. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Make sure the paperwork names the active ingredient, amphetamine salts, and not only the brand, because the brand is not what appears in the schedule. Bring a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 6 constituent placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 6 amphetamine and dexamphetamine constituents applied to Adderall «الجدول رقم (6): أملاح الأمفيتامين في أديرال», the brand name not being a printed schedule name, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Alcohol

Legal status: Alcohol is outside the Law No. 23 of 2016 scheduling question altogether, and the schedule search that establishes that is recorded as «بحث الجداول عن الكحول: لا يوجد قيد مطابق في جداول المواد المخدرة أو المؤثرات العقلية.», a schedule search for alcohol returning no matching narcotic or psychotropic entry. The Law's own definitions are membership tests rather than descriptions: article 2 makes «المادة المخدرة» every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4, and «المؤثرات العقلية» every such substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9, so a psychoactive substance that is on no schedule is not a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance for this Law however it behaves pharmacologically. Ordinary beverage alcohol is not listed. It is governed instead through Jordanian food and beverage regulation and the licensing and excise rules for alcoholic beverages, which are separate instruments that this schedule audit did not read. The only limb of Law No. 23 that could reach an unlisted substance at all is article 14(a), which covers «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law, taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Nothing in this cell says alcohol is unregulated in Jordan. It says that the narcotics law is not the instrument that regulates it.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the death penalty nor life imprisonment reaches alcohol through Law No. 23 of 2016, because articles 19 and 20 operate on scheduled narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and chemical precursors, and alcohol is in none of those classes. There is no drug quantity threshold either, because a threshold is something a schedule entry carries and there is no entry. The only limb of the Law that could touch an unlisted intoxicant is article 14, which supplies possession, use and trafficking penalties and creates neither a life nor a death route and no weight-based rule of any kind. What does govern alcohol in Jordan sits elsewhere: the licensing regime for sale and service, the excise regime on import and supply, and the ordinary criminal and traffic law for what a person does while intoxicated. Those instruments carry their own consequences, they were not audited for this table, and they are a different question from the one this cell answers. A traveller should not read any of this as a statement that alcohol is freely handled in Jordan.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from Law No. 23 of 2016 for alcohol, because the Law does not schedule it and there is no control here for a prescription to lift. The Jordanian rules that do govern it are licensing and excise rules rather than medicines rules, and they were not audited for this row. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions, so where another regime applies it is treated here as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: No documentation is required for alcohol by the narcotics law, and no carriage allowance is granted by it either, because a carriage requirement under that statute is something a schedule entry creates and there is no entry. That is a narrow answer rather than a clearance. Jordan's licensing, excise and customs rules reach alcohol at the border with their own duty-free limits and their own declaration requirements, and they were not audited here. The schedule search recorded above was run against the official consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, no narcotic or psychotropic schedule entry for alcohol after a search of the attached schedules, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 and Schedules 5 to 9 membership tests and article 14(a) the only limb capable of reaching an unlisted intoxicant · the governing Jordanian regime is food and beverage regulation together with the licensing and excise rules for alcoholic beverages, which were not audited for this row · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Amanita muscaria

Legal status: Whether Amanita muscaria is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ amanita-muscaria: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for Amanita muscaria: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were Amanita muscaria, muscimol and ibotenic acid, and the plant and psychotropic schedules were checked for each. The row is unresolved on both routes at once, because neither the mushroom nor its principal psychoactive constituents were recovered, and a species name cannot be given a scheduled-drug status on its own. Note that this species is not the psilocybin-bearing kind; psilocybin is expressly in Schedule 5, and that entry is about a different fungus. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Schedules also move. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. The species, muscimol and ibotenic acid all returned nothing in the last searchable schedule, so neither the plant route nor the constituent route closes, and two branches follow. If the mushroom and its constituents are genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available, and article 14(a) is written to reach exactly this case, an unlisted material taken with intent to cause intoxication. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added the mushroom or a constituent to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way, and article 19(a)(1) separately reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess. A traveller should read the harsher branch, because what is deferred here is what could be read in September 2026 and not what Jordan permits.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for Amanita muscaria, because the control status that would drive it is not established. There is no medical route to describe in any case, and the practical Jordanian question for a dried mushroom product is more likely to be a food, supplement or import question than a narcotics one. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines, food and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for Amanita muscaria, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry the material. Dried mushroom product crossing a border is examined as a foodstuff as well as a possible drug, and the species that this row is about is easily confused at inspection with the psilocybin-bearing mushrooms, which are on the scheduled branch. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for Amanita muscaria after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the mushroom and its constituents are genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled either · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Amphetamine is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Amphetamine is expressly printed in Schedule 6, «الجدول رقم (6): أمفيتامين», which makes the route direct rather than derivative: nothing has to be inferred from Adderall, which is a formulation of amphetamine salts, or from methamphetamine, which is a separate molecule with its own entry in the same schedule. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», which is to say the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may amend any attached schedule by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Amphetamine's Schedule 6 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold, and the amphetamine trade in this region moves in tablet form at volume, which is the context in which the international aggravators at article 20 are most likely to be argued.
If prescribed / medical: Amphetamine is a prescribed medicine for attention deficit disorder and narcolepsy in many countries, and being a medicine does not lift the control. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. A patient carrying a prescribed amphetamine preparation should expect the substance to be treated as a Schedule 6 psychotropic substance and should not assume that a routine repeat prescription abroad translates into routine treatment here. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Bring a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 6 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 6 entry for amphetamine «الجدول رقم (6): أمفيتامين», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: Amyl nitrite is a chemical precursor under Law No. 23 of 2016 and not a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance, and it became one recently. Article 2 defines the class as «السلائف الكيميائية: كل مادة كيميائية يمكن أن ينتج منها أو تدخل في صناعة أو تساعد على إنتاج المواد المخدرة أو المؤثرات العقلية والمدرجة في الجدولين رقم (11) و(12) الملحقين بهذا القانون.», chemical precursors being chemicals capable of producing, entering into the manufacture of, or assisting the production of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, and listed in Schedules 11 and 12. The entry reads «الجدول رقم (11): نتريت الأميل أو نتريت البنتيل», amyl nitrite or pentyl nitrite, and it was added by a Council of Ministers decision published in the Official Gazette in July 2026, after the last fully searchable consolidation of the schedules was issued on 29 December 2025. That sequence is the reason the row matters beyond itself: it is the one documented instance in this dossier of the amendment power at article 37 being exercised inside the unsearchable window, and it shows the window is not theoretical. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», the Council of Ministers acting on the Minister of Health's recommendation, with Gazette publication a condition. The penalty articles that follow the Schedule 11 placement are 17 and 37.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The article written for a Schedule 11 or 12 chemical precursor is article 17 of Law No. 23 of 2016, and article 17 contains no life penalty and no death penalty. For the specified acts done with intent to use the precursor in manufacturing or producing a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance, it imposes temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years together with a fine of between ten thousand and thirty thousand Jordanian dinars. There is no weight threshold in article 17, so quantity does not move the exposure up or down, and intent to use the substance in manufacture is an element of the offence rather than an aggravating feature of it. What has changed for a traveller is not the severity but the status: a product that was on no Jordanian schedule at the end of 2025 is on one now, so a bottle bought abroad in a shop is a scheduled chemical on arrival. Article 37 of the Law, which provides for treatment of an addict, is the other provision the dossier attaches to this row.
If prescribed / medical: Amyl nitrite has a genuine but narrow medical history, as an inhaled vasodilator and as a component of cyanide poisoning kits, and that is not how it reaches a traveller. It is controlled here as a chemical precursor, and the article written for it turns on intent to use the substance in manufacturing or producing a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance, so holding a preparation without that intent is outside the article 17 offence as defined. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions. Jordan's medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging if a nitrite preparation was dispensed to you, and get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. The point specific to this substance is the date: the Schedule 11 entry was created by a Gazette decision in July 2026, so any advice written before then, including advice from a pharmacist or a retailer abroad, describes a status Jordan no longer has. The entry was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 11 chemical precursor entry for amyl nitrite «الجدول رقم (11): نتريت الأميل أو نتريت البنتيل», added by Council of Ministers decision published in the Official Gazette in July 2026 under the article 37 amendment power, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 11 and 12 precursor definition and article 17 the penalty route · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86, the July 2026 decision reported by the Jordan News Agency at https://petra.gov.jo/ and the Prime Ministry, which publishes Council of Ministers decisions, at https://pm.gov.jo/ · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025, which predates this entry · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Ayahuasca is not itself a schedule title in Jordan, and it does not need to be. The brew is reached through what it contains: a preparation that actually contains DMT is caught by the Schedule 5 entry for that molecule, and the dossier's mapping for this row prints «الجدول رقم (5): ثنائي ميثيل تريبتامين في الأياهواسكا», the Schedule 5 dimethyltryptamine in ayahuasca. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law, and the words «كل مادة طبيعية», every natural substance, are what carry the entry into a plant preparation. The converse also holds and should not be glossed over: a product sold under this name that does not in fact contain DMT cannot inherit the result by name alone, because the entry is for the molecule. The vine and the leaf are two different plants and the brew varies in what is actually in it. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a plant or a further constituent by a Gazette decision.
Consequences if caught: Where the brew contains DMT, the Schedule 5 entry applies and the whole of the Law's psychotropic structure comes with it, up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic, and the same article separately reaches a plant producing psychotropic substances. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. No weight threshold appears in either article, so a bottle of brew is reached exactly as a bag of powder would be, and the liquid form does not dilute the offence.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for ayahuasca in Jordan to describe, and no Jordanian religious or ceremonial exemption was located in the text read for this row. The placement that governs a brew is the Schedule 5 entry for the DMT in it, so the traveller rule below attaches to that entry rather than to the preparation's name. A church membership, a foreign ceremonial licence or a retreat centre's documentation describes another country's arrangement and is not a Jordanian authorisation. The structural point is the same as for DMT itself: the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes a DMT-containing brew lawful to carry into Jordan. Ceremonial paperwork, a retreat booking and a religious affiliation are not permissions, and a bottle of dark liquid in luggage invites a laboratory reading rather than a conversation. Carry nothing and ask the Jordan Food and Drug Administration in writing before travel if a specific licensed substance is in question. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 5 DMT placement relied on here was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 5 DMT entry applied to ayahuasca as a preparation containing the scheduled molecule «الجدول رقم (5): ثنائي ميثيل تريبتامين في الأياهواسكا», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, article 19(a)(1) the plant limb, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · a product not containing DMT does not fall under this entry by name · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Barbiturates

Legal status: Four barbiturates are expressly listed in Jordan's schedules as psychotropic substances, and the class as such is not. Barbiturates is a chemical class rather than a single molecule, so the question has to be put member by member, and for Jordan the member-by-member check returns named members rather than nothing. The schedules expressly carry «فينوباربيتال؛ باربيتال؛ بنتوباربيتال؛ سيكوباربيتال», which is to say phenobarbital, barbital, pentobarbital and secobarbital. That is what makes this a finding and not a deferral: the class label cannot be given one schedule number, but the principal members of it are individually listed and each follows its own schedule placement. The definition that catches a listed member is the psychotropic definition at article 2, «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. A product sold under the class name has to be read for its actual active ingredient. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a further member by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: A named scheduled member carries the full article 19 and 20 structure, and for Jordan the named members are phenobarbital, barbital, pentobarbital and secobarbital, so this is not a row where the exposure can be described as absent. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved, which means repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, and it too is mandatory on its own wording, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or international criminal activity circumstance. Neither article states a quantity threshold, so the aggravating circumstance decides the sentence and the amount does not. Where a particular barbiturate turns out to be on no schedule at all, the route for it is article 14, which is non-capital, and the difference between the two routes is decided by the active ingredient rather than by the word on the box.
If prescribed / medical: Phenobarbital and its listed relatives are genuine medicines, used for epilepsy, for anaesthesia and in palliative care, and being a medicine does not lift the control. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status; what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions, and Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent. A traveller carrying a barbiturate should know which one it is, because the four named members are scheduled and the answer for any other member has to be taken from that member rather than from the class.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. A doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period is worth having, and the active ingredient is the item on that list that matters most here, because the class name alone does not answer the Jordanian question. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The member list was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, member-by-member schedule determination for the barbiturate class, the schedules expressly naming «فينوباربيتال؛ باربيتال؛ بنتوباربيتال؛ سيكوباربيتال», phenobarbital, barbital, pentobarbital and secobarbital, with the applicable penalty article following each member's own schedule placement · article 2 supplies the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions, article 14 the route for an unscheduled member and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: The named benzodiazepines are caught in Jordan as psychotropic substances. Benzodiazepines is a chemical class rather than a single molecule, so the question has to be put member by member, and in Jordan every member considered converges on the same answer. The schedules expressly name «ألبرازولام؛ كلونازيبام؛ ديازيبام؛ لورازيبام؛ نيميتازيبام», alprazolam, clonazepam, diazepam, lorazepam and nimetazepam, and each of those five is individually printed in Schedule 9. Etizolam, which is treated as a sixth member of the group, is a thienodiazepine rather than a true benzodiazepine and is resolved on its own row, and it is in Schedule 9 as well, so the placement does not change whichever way that classification question is taken. The definition that catches a listed member is the psychotropic definition at article 2, «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. A preparation at the printed low-dose limit is separately addressed in Schedule 10 for at least one member, alprazolam, so the finished product strength can still matter. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a further member by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Every named member is in Schedule 9 and a Schedule 9 substance carries the full article 19 and 20 structure, so this is not a row where the exposure can be described as absent. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory on its own wording, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or international criminal activity circumstance. Neither article states a quantity threshold, so a strip of tablets and a suitcase of them sit in the same provision and the aggravating circumstance decides the sentence. Where a benzodiazepine outside the named five turns out to be on no schedule at all, the route for it is article 14, which is non-capital, so the active ingredient rather than the class label decides which structure applies.
If prescribed / medical: These are among the most widely prescribed medicines in the world and every one of the named members is controlled here, which is the combination that catches travellers. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. Schedule 10 addresses qualifying preparations at a printed low-dose limit, so the strength and form of the finished product can change how a particular product is treated. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status; what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions, and Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Do not decant tablets into a pill organiser for the flight, because an unlabelled Schedule 9 tablet is the hardest item in a bag to account for, and bring a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The member placements were read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, member-by-member schedule determination for the benzodiazepine class, the schedules expressly naming «ألبرازولام؛ كلونازيبام؛ ديازيبام؛ لورازيبام؛ نيميتازيبام», alprazolam, clonazepam, diazepam, lorazepam and nimetazepam, each at Schedule 9, with etizolam separately at Schedule 9 on its own row · article 2 supplies the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, Schedule 10 the low-dose preparation rule, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions, article 14 the route for an unscheduled member and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Buprenorphine is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description, which is worth noting because buprenorphine is an opioid and might be expected in the narcotic schedules rather than the psychotropic ones. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law, so the classification follows the schedule the substance actually appears in. Buprenorphine is expressly named at Schedule 7, printed «الجدول رقم (7): بوبرينورفين», and that is the only entry in Schedule 7 relied on anywhere in this table. Trafficking exposure therefore turns on article 19 conduct and aggravators rather than on a quantity table. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.»
Consequences if caught: Buprenorphine's Schedule 7 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. The point that matters for a patient is the same as for methadone: passing a film or a tablet to another person in treatment is a supply act, however it was meant.
If prescribed / medical: Buprenorphine is a treatment medicine, used for opioid dependence as a sublingual film or tablet and for pain as a patch, and being a medicine does not lift the Schedule 7 control. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. As with methadone, treatment programmes commonly dispense under supervision rather than issuing a quantity to carry, so a traveller needs the prescribing service to arrange and document a take-home supply in advance; a foreign programme's arrangements are not a Jordanian authorisation. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's or the clinic's details legible. A letter from the treating service naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period covered is close to essential where the supply is a take-home from a dependence programme. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 7 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 7 entry for buprenorphine «الجدول رقم (7): بوبرينورفين», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Caffeine

Legal status: Caffeine is outside the Law No. 23 of 2016 scheduling question altogether, and the schedule search that establishes that is recorded as «بحث الجداول عن كافيين: لا يوجد قيد مطابق في جداول المواد المخدرة أو المؤثرات العقلية.», a schedule search for caffeine returning no matching narcotic or psychotropic entry. The Law's definitions are membership tests rather than descriptions: article 2 makes «المادة المخدرة» every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4, and «المؤثرات العقلية» every such substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9, so a stimulant that appears on no schedule is not a psychotropic substance for this Law however it behaves. Caffeine appears on none. It is governed instead under the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's food and medicines regime, as an ingredient in beverages and foods and as a component of some licensed medicines, and that regime was not audited for this row. The only limb of Law No. 23 that could reach an unlisted substance at all is article 14(a), which covers «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law, taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind, and coffee does not answer that description.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the death penalty nor life imprisonment reaches caffeine through Law No. 23 of 2016, because articles 19 and 20 operate on scheduled narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and chemical precursors, and caffeine is in none of those classes. There is no drug quantity threshold either, because a threshold is something a schedule entry carries and there is no entry. Article 14, the only limb capable of reaching an unlisted substance, is non-capital in any event, and its intent element is not met by ordinary consumption of coffee, tea or an energy drink. What can bite instead is the food and medicines regime: a high-dose caffeine powder or tablet imported in bulk is a regulated product question rather than a drug offence question, and it was not audited for this row. A traveller should read this cell as saying that the narcotics law is not the instrument that governs caffeine, and not as saying that every caffeine product moves freely.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from Law No. 23 of 2016 for caffeine, because the Law does not schedule it and there is no control here for a prescription to lift. Where caffeine is a component of a licensed medicine in Jordan, that medicine's own licensing and supply conditions govern it, and those sit in the medicines regime rather than in the narcotics law. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions, so another regime is treated here as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: No documentation is required for caffeine by the narcotics law, and no carriage allowance is granted by it either, because a carriage requirement under that statute is something a schedule entry creates and there is no entry. That is a narrow answer rather than a clearance. A caffeine-containing medicine still travels best in its original packaging with its prescription if it had one, and concentrated caffeine sold as a supplement is subject to the ordinary import and food safety rules, which were not audited here. The schedule search recorded above was run against the official consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, no narcotic or psychotropic schedule entry for caffeine after a search of the attached schedules, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 and Schedules 5 to 9 membership tests and article 14(a) the only limb capable of reaching an unlisted substance · the governing Jordanian regime is the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's food and medicines regulation, which was not audited for this row · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Cannabinol

Legal status: Whether Cannabinol is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ cannabinol: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for Cannabinol: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were Cannabinol, CBN and the cannabinol chemical name. This row turns on a string that is a trap for a text search: the word stem appears inside tetrahydrocannabinol, which is scheduled, and every such hit was reviewed and rejected as THC rather than CBN. No exact cannabinol entry was found. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Schedules also move. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. The tetrahydrocannabinol isomers are scheduled and cannabinol is a different compound whose name happens to sit inside theirs, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open and two branches follow. If cannabinol is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved. Article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory on its own wording where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, and at any quantity. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess. A traveller should read the harsher branch, and on this row there is a second reason to: cannabinol occurs in aged cannabis material, and the plant and its resin and extracts are themselves scheduled, so the container rather than the molecule may settle the case.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for Cannabinol, because the control status that would drive it is not established. A CBN product is in practice a cannabis-derived product, and the cannabis entries are express, so a preparation containing it can be reached through the plant and extract route whatever the isolated molecule's own status turns out to be. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for Cannabinol, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry a CBN product. The practical exposure on this row is the matrix rather than the molecule: a gummy, oil or vape sold for its CBN content is normally a cannabis extract, and cannabis, its resin and its extracts are expressly scheduled. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for Cannabinol after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Cannabis is a narcotic drug under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and it is reached through more than one schedule entry because more than one thing is sold under the name. Article 2 provides «المادة المخدرة: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (1) و(2) و(3) و(4) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», a narcotic drug being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 attached to this Law. The schedule number for the cannabis entry is not established here, and that is a deferral rather than a gap in the reading. The dossier's row mapping prints the number as «الجدول رقم (المختص)», the relevant schedule, a placeholder where a numeral belongs, and a placeholder inside a quotation is not a quotation. The dossier's summary column says Schedules 1 and 3, but that is a summary and no entry is quoted against either number anywhere in the document, so it is not relied on here. What the schedule wording does carry for this substance is «القنب وراتنج القنب ومستخلصاته», cannabis and cannabis resin and its extracts, so the herb, the resin and an extract are each addressed and the precise product determines which schedule description applies once the number is established from the schedules themselves. The article 19(a)(1) plant limb, which reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, addresses cultivation separately again. A note on the source: the dossier's row-specific mapping for this substance prints the schedule number as «الجدول رقم (المختص)», the relevant schedule, rather than as a numeral, so the schedule numbers stated here are taken from the instrument column, which gives Schedules 1 and 3, rather than from that mapping line. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may amend any of it by a Gazette decision.
Consequences if caught: Cannabis is scheduled, so the whole of the Law's narcotic structure is available against it and article 20 states the ceiling in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», death. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic, and its first limb separately reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs, which is how cultivation is caught. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. No weight threshold appears in article 19 or in article 20, so a personal amount is inside the same provisions as a consignment and there is no gram figure that makes a case small, whatever is lawful in the traveller's own country.
If prescribed / medical: Cannabis is controlled as a narcotic drug through the Schedules 1 and 3 entries, so any lawful medical supply would run inside Law No. 23 of 2016 rather than around it, and a foreign medical cannabis authorisation is not a Jordanian one and does not become one at the border. The trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so conduct without that intent is not that offence, which is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. A prescription card, a dispensary label or a state licence from another country describes that country's scheme and carries no weight against the Jordanian schedules. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes cannabis lawful to carry into Jordan, and the documents most likely to be offered, a foreign medical card or a dispensary receipt, are evidence of possession rather than of permission. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator rather than this page settles a specific case, in writing and before travel. The product form matters if the question is ever asked, since the herb, the resin and an extract are each addressed in the schedules. The Schedules 1 and 3 placements were read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedules 1 and 3 cannabis entries covering «القنب وراتنج القنب ومستخلصاته», cannabis, cannabis resin and its extracts, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 narcotic drug definition, article 3 the scope provision, article 19(a)(1) the plant limb, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · the dossier's row mapping printed the schedule number as «الجدول رقم (المختص)» rather than as a numeral, so the schedule numbers are taken from the instrument column · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Cathinone is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Cathinone is expressly listed at Schedule 5, printed «الجدول رقم (5): كاثينون», and it is the natural alkaloid of the khat leaf rather than a laboratory product. It should not be collapsed into the broader chemistry of the synthetic cathinones: mephedrone, 3-MMC, methylone and MDPV are each separately and individually listed at Schedule 6, and the parent compound's entry is not what carries them. Cathine, the related alkaloid that also occurs in khat, sits at Schedule 7 again. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», which is how new members of this rapidly growing family are added.
Consequences if caught: Cathinone's Schedule 5 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold. Because the alkaloid occurs naturally in khat leaf, this entry is also one of the two constituent routes by which that plant is reached.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for cathinone in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 5 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and has no dispensed medical use there. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes cathinone lawful to carry, and none that a traveller could produce for it. Plant material containing the alkaloid raises the same entry and meets agricultural inspection besides. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. The Schedule 5 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 5 entry for cathinone «الجدول رقم (5): كاثينون», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · the synthetic cathinones are separately listed at Schedule 6 and cathine at Schedule 7 · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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CBD

Legal status: CBD is conditional under Law No. 23 of 2016, and the condition is printed rather than inferred. Cannabidiol appears at Schedule 3, «الجدول رقم (3): كانابيديول», within the cannabis-product rule, and the schedule expressly excludes a CBD-predominant cannabis oil, extract or preparation at not more than 0.3 per cent delta-9 THC. A product at or below that printed limit falls outside the entry; a product above it falls within the Schedule 3 cannabis-product wording and is treated accordingly. Article 2 provides «المادة المخدرة: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (1) و(2) و(3) و(4) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», a narcotic drug being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 attached to this Law, so a CBD product above the limit is a narcotic drug for this Law and one below it is not. The whole question is therefore the THC content of the actual bottle, which a label may state inaccurately and which only analysis establishes. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text, and the figure itself is amendable: article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», expressly including the power to change the stated percentages.
Consequences if caught: A CBD product above the printed 0.3 per cent delta-9 THC limit is inside the Schedule 3 cannabis-product wording, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory on the article's own wording once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold. What decides this row is concentration rather than amount, and a small bottle of high-THC oil is on the wrong side of the line while a large bottle of compliant oil is not.
If prescribed / medical: CBD reaches consumers as a supplement, a cosmetic and an oil far more often than as a prescribed medicine, and none of those formats carries a prescription to produce. What matters under Law No. 23 of 2016 is the delta-9 THC content: at or below the printed 0.3 per cent limit the product is outside the Schedule 3 entry, and above it the product is a controlled cannabis product whatever it is sold as. A certificate of analysis from the manufacturer is the document that speaks to the question, and it is a claim rather than a finding until someone tests the bottle. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing, dispensing or retail conditions; Jordan's separate medicines, food and supplement regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry a certificate of analysis showing the delta-9 THC content, the original sealed packaging with its labelling, and the prescription if the product was dispensed to you as a medicine. That is the row where a laboratory document is worth more than a prescription, because the printed limit is a concentration and not a permission. Do not rely on the product being legal where it was bought, and do not decant oil into an unlabelled bottle. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row. The Schedule 3 entry and its 0.3 per cent exclusion were read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 3 cannabis-product rule with the cannabidiol entry «الجدول رقم (3): كانابيديول» and the printed exclusion for a CBD-predominant oil, extract or preparation at not more than 0.3 per cent delta-9 THC, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 narcotic drug definition, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions where the product is controlled, and article 37 the amendment power including the express power to change the stated percentages · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Clonazepam is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Clonazepam is individually named at Schedule 9, printed «الجدول رقم (9): كلونازيبام», so its result does not depend on treating all benzodiazepines as one class. The individual listing matters for this drug in particular because clonazepam is prescribed as an anticonvulsant as much as an anxiolytic, and a patient may not think of it as a benzodiazepine at all. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may amend any attached schedule by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Clonazepam's Schedule 9 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold, so a strip of tablets for a seizure disorder is inside the same provisions as any larger amount.
If prescribed / medical: Clonazepam is prescribed for epilepsy, panic disorder and movement disorders, and being a medicine does not lift the Schedule 9 control. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. A patient with a seizure disorder has a strong reason to carry an uninterrupted supply, which is exactly why the documentation should make the clinical need visible rather than leaving the quantity to explain itself. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Bring a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the treatment period and, where it applies, the condition being treated, since an anticonvulsant supply for a long trip is more easily explained when the reason for it is on the page. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 9 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 9 entry for clonazepam «الجدول رقم (9): كلونازيبام», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Cocaine is a narcotic drug under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المادة المخدرة: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (1) و(2) و(3) و(4) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», a narcotic drug being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 attached to this Law. Cocaine sits at Schedule 1, printed «الجدول رقم (1): كوكايين», so the classification rests on its own entry rather than on any inference from the coca plant or from a preparation name. A further provision bears on the product rather than on the substance: Schedule 10 carries a rule for very dilute preparations, so the strength and form of a particular finished product can change how that product is treated, and the actual preparation therefore matters. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», which is to say the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may amend any attached schedule by deleting or adding a substance or changing the stated percentages, specifications or conditions, provided the amendment is published in the Official Gazette. The amending decision belongs to the Council of Ministers rather than to the Ministry acting alone, and Gazette publication is a condition of it.
Consequences if caught: Article 20 of Law No. 23 of 2016 states the ceiling in two words, «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, and cocaine is inside that structure because its Schedule 1 placement makes it one of the narcotic drugs articles 19 and 20 operate on. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of not less than ten thousand and not more than twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the verb تكون is indicative rather than permissive, so life imprisonment is mandatory on the article's own wording once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. No weight threshold appears in article 19 or in article 20, so there is no figure below which a traveller is safe and none above which death follows, and the aggravating circumstance rather than the amount decides between fifteen years, mandatory life and mandatory death.
If prescribed / medical: Cocaine is controlled as a narcotic drug, so any lawful medical supply runs inside Law No. 23 of 2016 rather than around it. The trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so conduct without that intent is not the article 19 offence and a supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking. That is a point about how the offence is framed and it is not a permission. Cocaine's clinical use is narrow, as a topical anaesthetic in specialist ear, nose and throat practice rather than as a dispensed take-home medicine, so the realistic traveller case is not a prescription at all. Schedule 10's dilute-preparation rule is the provision that can change the treatment of a particular product. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging if cocaine was dispensed to you, and get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. That is the carriage answer and it is deliberately short, because no traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, and Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator rather than this page is where a specific case is settled. Keep the quantity to what the prescription covers and keep the prescriber's details legible. The Schedule 1 placement and the Schedule 10 preparation rule were read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 1 entry for cocaine «الجدول رقم (1): كوكايين», with the Schedule 10 dilute-preparation rule, article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 narcotic drug definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Codeine is a narcotic drug under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المادة المخدرة: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (1) و(2) و(3) و(4) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», a narcotic drug being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 attached to this Law. Codeine is expressly scheduled at Schedule 2, printed «الجدول رقم (2): كودايين», and it also appears in the Schedule 10 preparation provisions, which is what makes the finished product strength the operative question on this row rather than the ingredient name. A low-content combination sold across a pharmacy counter and a high-strength tablet are not necessarily treated alike, so the product has to be read before the schedule treatment is assigned. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», and the power to change the stated percentages is exactly the power that can move a preparation across a Schedule 10 line.
Consequences if caught: A Schedule 2 substance is a narcotic drug for this Law in the same sense as a Schedule 1 one, so codeine sits inside articles 19 and 20 and article 20 states the ceiling in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», death. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold, and the reason this matters for codeine in particular is that it is the most casually carried controlled drug in the table: cough syrup and combination painkillers are bought without much thought and are still scheduled here.
If prescribed / medical: Codeine is an everyday medicine in most countries and a scheduled narcotic drug in Jordan, and that mismatch is the whole practical content of this row. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. The Schedule 10 preparation provisions matter here more than for most substances, because codeine reaches patients mainly in low-content combinations, and whether a particular product falls under the preparation treatment depends on its printed strength. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Do not assume that a product bought without a prescription at home needs no paperwork here, and do not decant syrup into an unlabelled bottle. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport, and state the strength as well as the name when you ask. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 2 placement and the Schedule 10 preparation rules were read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 2 entry for codeine «الجدول رقم (2): كودايين», with the Schedule 10 preparation rules, article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 narcotic drug definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power including the power to change the stated percentages · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Crack cocaine is not a separate Jordanian schedule entry, and it does not need one. It is cocaine base, so the substance it consists of is the Schedule 1 entry «الجدول رقم (1): كوكايين في مستحضر الكراك», the cocaine in the crack preparation, and the verified result rests on that exact substance rather than on the street name. Article 2 provides «المادة المخدرة: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (1) و(2) و(3) و(4) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», a narcotic drug being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 attached to this Law, and the definition is a membership test applied to what is in the sample. Freebasing changes the physical form and the route of administration; it does not create a different molecule, and nothing in the Law's structure treats a preparation more leniently because it has a market name of its own. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», which is to say the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may amend any attached schedule by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: What a sample contains, not what it is called, decides the case, and a crack sample contains Schedule 1 cocaine, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold, so the rock-sized quantities this form is sold in attract the same provision as any other amount and the aggravating circumstance decides the sentence.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription question for crack cocaine, because no medicine is dispensed in this form. Cocaine itself is controlled as a narcotic drug at Schedule 1 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and has a narrow specialist clinical use as a topical anaesthetic, and a lawfully dispensed supply of that licensed preparation is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines the offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic. That is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission, and it does not extend to a street preparation. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes crack cocaine lawful to carry, and none that could be produced for it, because it is not a dispensed product and has no packaging or prescriber to name. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Where a licensed cocaine preparation has genuinely been dispensed to a patient, that is a different object, and it should travel in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription, with the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position obtained in writing beforehand. The Schedule 1 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 1 cocaine entry applied to crack cocaine «الجدول رقم (1): كوكايين في مستحضر الكراك», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 narcotic drug definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Delta-8-THC is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Delta-8 is expressly covered among the scheduled tetrahydrocannabinol isomers at Schedule 5, printed «الجدول رقم (5): دلتا 8 تتراهيدروكانابينول», so no delta-9-only inference is required and the marketing argument that delta-8 is a different and unregulated cannabinoid does not survive contact with the entry. That argument depends on a hemp-derived loophole in another country's statute and has no counterpart in this one. The Schedule 3 cannabis-product rule, which excludes a CBD-predominant preparation at not more than 0.3 per cent delta-9 THC, is about delta-9 content and does not create an allowance for delta-8. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.»
Consequences if caught: Delta-8's inclusion among the scheduled THC isomers puts it inside articles 19 and 20, where article 20 states the ceiling in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», death. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. The particular danger on this row is expectation: delta-8 products are sold openly in shops and online in several countries as a legal alternative to cannabis, so people carry vape cartridges and gummies without registering them as controlled at all.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for delta-8-THC in Jordan to describe. It is controlled among the scheduled tetrahydrocannabinol isomers at Schedule 5 and is not a dispensed medicine there, and a product's availability on an open shelf abroad is not a permission here. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing, dispensing or retail conditions; Jordan's separate medicines, food and supplement regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes a delta-8 product lawful to carry into Jordan, and the documents most likely to be offered, a retail receipt or a manufacturer's certificate describing the product as hemp-derived, are not permissions. A certificate of analysis on this row establishes what the product contains, which is the scheduled isomer, so it tends to confirm rather than answer the question. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Check before you fly rather than at the airport, and treat a vape cartridge as what it contains. The Schedule 5 isomer entry was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 5 tetrahydrocannabinol isomer entry covering delta-8 «الجدول رقم (5): دلتا 8 تتراهيدروكانابينول», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · the Schedule 3 cannabis-product exclusion is expressed in delta-9 THC content and does not create a delta-8 allowance · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Diazepam

Legal status: Diazepam is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Diazepam is individually printed at Schedule 9, «الجدول رقم (9): ديازيبام», which resolves the substance without relying on the benzodiazepine class label at all. It is the oldest and most widely dispensed member of that family, and its individual listing is what the class row of this table is built from together with the other named members. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may amend any attached schedule by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Diazepam's Schedule 9 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. Diazepam is the drug people most often carry casually for flight anxiety or muscle spasm, sometimes given by a friend rather than prescribed, and a tablet that came from someone else's prescription is the commonest way an ordinary traveller ends up holding a Schedule 9 substance without paperwork.
If prescribed / medical: Diazepam is among the most prescribed medicines in the world and being a medicine does not lift the Schedule 9 control. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. The distinction that matters in practice is between a supply dispensed to you and one dispensed to somebody else: the second is not covered by the first person's prescription, and handing tablets to a travelling companion is a supply act on its face. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Do not carry tablets that were dispensed to another person, and do not decant them into an unlabelled container. Bring a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 9 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 9 entry for diazepam «الجدول رقم (9): ديازيبام», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: DMT is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law, and the phrase «كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية», every natural or synthetic substance, is what makes the entry reach the molecule whether it was synthesised or extracted from a plant. DMT is expressly listed at Schedule 5, printed «الجدول رقم (5): ثنائي ميثيل تريبتامين», so the legal mapping is direct for the molecule itself and for preparations that actually contain it, ayahuasca among them. The entry is for DMT and not for its substituted relatives: 5-MeO-DMT and 4-AcO-DMT are separate compounds that this table could not close, and neither inherits this result. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a relative by a Gazette decision.
Consequences if caught: DMT's Schedule 5 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold, and a plant preparation containing the molecule is reached in the same way as the isolated compound.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for DMT in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016 and has no dispensed medical use there, and clinical research with tryptamines elsewhere does not create a Jordanian permission. The structural point is the same as for the other Schedule 5 substances: the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes DMT lawful to carry, and none that a traveller could produce for it. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a specific case about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. Note that the control attaches to the molecule rather than to the container: bark, root material or a brew that actually contains DMT is reached through the same entry, and a religious or ceremonial description of the preparation does not change what is in it. The Schedule 5 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 5 entry for DMT «الجدول رقم (5): ثنائي ميثيل تريبتامين», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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DOM

Legal status: DOM is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. DOM is expressly listed at Schedule 5, printed «الجدول رقم (5): DOM», and the entry carries its STP synonym, which is what distinguishes it from the other dimethoxyamphetamine analogues that share most of its name. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», which is to say the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may amend any attached schedule by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: DOM's Schedule 5 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold, and DOM is a milligram-dose compound carried on blotter, so the physical amount says nothing about the legal position.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for DOM in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 5 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and has no dispensed medical use there or elsewhere. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes DOM lawful to carry, and none that a traveller could produce for it. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. As with the other blotter-carried compounds, material sold as one thing frequently analyses as another, and several of the candidates are separately scheduled. The Schedule 5 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 5 entry for DOM «الجدول رقم (5): DOM», carrying the STP synonym, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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DXM

Legal status: Whether DXM is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ dxm: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for DXM: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were dextromethorphan, DXM and (+)-3-methoxy-N-methylmorphinan. The near miss on this row was dextromoramide, which is a scheduled opioid sharing only the first four letters, and it was reviewed and rejected: a similarly prefixed schedule name denotes a different chemical. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Schedules also move. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. The scheduled name that looks closest to this one, dextromoramide, is a different opioid, so nothing on the list has been matched to dextromethorphan and the placement that the penalty depends on is still open. Two branches follow. If DXM is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available, and article 14(a) turns on intent to cause intoxication, which is a live question for a cough preparation taken in quantity. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way: article 19(b) makes life imprisonment mandatory on «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة» once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 makes death mandatory on «يعاقب بالإعدام» where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess. A traveller should read the harsher branch, because what is deferred here is what could be read in September 2026 and not what Jordan permits.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for DXM, because the control status that would drive it is not established, and this is the row where that matters most in practice. Dextromethorphan is an ordinary cough suppressant sold across the counter in many countries, and a substance can be a pharmacy-only or prescription-only medicine in Jordan, or restricted by pack size, without appearing on a Law No. 23 schedule at all. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription or the retail packaging for any dextromethorphan preparation, keep the quantity to a personal course rather than a case of bottles, and get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly if you are carrying more than an ordinary personal supply. No carriage rule for this substance can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016, because its control status could not be closed, and an absent instruction is not a permission. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for DXM after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Ephedrine is a chemical precursor under Law No. 23 of 2016 and not a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance, and the distinction changes which penalty article applies, so it is not cosmetic. Article 2 defines the class as «السلائف الكيميائية: كل مادة كيميائية يمكن أن ينتج منها أو تدخل في صناعة أو تساعد على إنتاج المواد المخدرة أو المؤثرات العقلية والمدرجة في الجدولين رقم (11) و(12) الملحقين بهذا القانون.», chemical precursors being chemicals capable of producing, entering into the manufacture of, or assisting the production of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, and listed in Schedules 11 and 12 attached to this Law. The placement is Schedule 11, printed «الجدول رقم (11): إيفيدرين», and the penalty articles that follow from it are 17 and 37. Ephedrine is expressly listed, so the classification rests on its own entry rather than on its relationship to methamphetamine, which is separately and expressly in Schedule 6. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may amend any attached schedule by deletion, addition or a change to the stated percentages, specifications or conditions, provided the amendment is published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The article written for a Schedule 11 or 12 chemical precursor is article 17 of Law No. 23 of 2016, and article 17 contains no life penalty and no death penalty. For the specified acts done with intent to use the precursor in manufacturing or producing a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance, it imposes temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years together with a fine of between ten thousand and thirty thousand Jordanian dinars. That is a severe sentence and it is not a capital one. There is no weight threshold in article 17 either, so quantity does not move the exposure up or down. Intent to use the substance in manufacture is an element of the offence rather than an aggravating feature of it, which means the article is directed at the person supplying a laboratory and not at the person holding a decongestant. Article 37 of the Law, which provides for treatment of an addict, is the other provision the dossier attaches to this row. The exposure described here is the precursor exposure, which is the classification ephedrine actually carries.
If prescribed / medical: Ephedrine is controlled as a chemical precursor, and the article written for it turns on intent to use the substance in manufacturing or producing a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance. Holding or using a medicine or a preparation containing it without that intent is outside the article 17 offence as the article defines it. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions: a pharmacy sale limit, a pack size restriction or a prescription requirement for an ephedrine preparation would sit in Jordan's medicines and pharmacy regimes, which were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging if ephedrine was dispensed to you, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator rather than this page is where a specific case is settled. Bulk quantities of a precursor are a different matter from a personal supply, and they are what article 17 is written about. The Schedule 11 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 11 chemical precursor entry for ephedrine «الجدول رقم (11): إيفيدرين», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 11 and 12 precursor definition, article 17 the penalty route, article 37 the amendment power and the treatment provision · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Etizolam

Legal status: Etizolam is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Etizolam is expressly named at Schedule 9, printed «الجدول رقم (9): إيتزولام», which resolves it independently of the conventional benzodiazepines despite its thienodiazepine structure. That express listing is the answer to the argument that etizolam is not a benzodiazepine and therefore falls outside benzodiazepine controls: whether or not the classification argument is right, Jordan has named the compound, and it sits in the same schedule as the five benzodiazepines this table carries. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.»
Consequences if caught: Etizolam's Schedule 9 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. Etizolam is also sold pressed into counterfeit tablets of other benzodiazepines, so a person may be carrying this listed compound while believing they hold a different listed compound, and both are in Schedule 9.
If prescribed / medical: Etizolam is a licensed prescription medicine in a small number of countries and an unlicensed research chemical in most, and neither status changes its Jordanian classification. It is a Schedule 9 psychotropic substance here, and a foreign prescription is not a Jordanian authorisation and does not become one at the border. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: If etizolam was genuinely dispensed to you in a country that licenses it, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. A vendor's research chemical labelling is not a document of that kind and should not be treated as one. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 9 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 9 entry for etizolam «الجدول رقم (9): إيتزولام», resolved on its own entry rather than by the benzodiazepine class label, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Fentanyl is a narcotic drug under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المادة المخدرة: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (1) و(2) و(3) و(4) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», a narcotic drug being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 attached to this Law, and the words «أو تركيبية», or synthetic, are why a wholly manufactured opioid is reached on the same footing as a plant-derived one. Fentanyl is expressly listed at Schedule 1, printed «الجدول رقم (1): فنتانيل», so the controlled-drug trafficking provisions apply without needing an opioid-class inference. The entry is for fentanyl itself, and a fentanyl analogue is a separate question that has to be put on its own terms. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may add an analogue or amend an entry by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Fentanyl's Schedule 1 placement puts it inside articles 19 and 20, where article 20 states the ceiling in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», death. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. The absence of a weight threshold matters more here than almost anywhere else in the table. Fentanyl is active in microgram doses, so a quantity that would be trivial for another opioid is a substantial number of doses, and since neither article states a threshold there is no amount small enough to fall outside the structure.
If prescribed / medical: Fentanyl is a genuine and widely used medicine, given as a patch, a lozenge or an injection for severe and cancer pain, and being a medicine does not lift the control. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. The gap between medical need and control status is wide for this drug, which is why the paperwork matters: a patient on a patch regime is carrying a Schedule 1 narcotic. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Bring a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and carry used patches out with you rather than leaving them loose, since a used patch still contains drug. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 1 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 1 entry for fentanyl «الجدول رقم (1): فنتانيل», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 narcotic drug definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Gabapentin

Legal status: Whether Gabapentin is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ gabapentin: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for Gabapentin: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were Gabapentin, the Arabic غابابنتين and 1-(aminomethyl)cyclohexaneacetic acid. No narcotic, psychotropic or precursor entry was recovered. The comparison that matters on this row is with pregabalin, which Jordan does schedule expressly, at Schedule 2, so the country plainly does control one gabapentinoid by name. That makes the silence about gabapentin a real finding about the searchable text rather than an oversight, and it is also why the row cannot be closed from the neighbouring entry. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. Pregabalin is expressly in Schedule 2 and gabapentin was not found anywhere in the searchable list, and the two are different molecules however close their clinical use, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open. Two branches follow. If gabapentin is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way, and that is not a remote branch for a gabapentinoid in this region. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار». Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess, and a traveller should read the harsher one.
If prescribed / medical: Gabapentin is a prescribed medicine and this row's deferral is about its narcotics-law status, not about its medical standing. No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for it, because the control status that would drive it is not established, and a medicine can be prescription-only in Jordan without appearing on a Law No. 23 schedule at all. The comparison worth carrying is pregabalin: that drug is scheduled here, so a patient who assumes the two are treated alike is assuming the thing this cell cannot confirm. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport, because the narcotics-law status of this medicine could not be closed and a carriage rule under that statute is something a schedule entry creates. An absent instruction is not a permission. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for Gabapentin after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · pregabalin is expressly at Schedule 2 and was compared · article 14(a) is the fallback route if gabapentin is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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GBL

Legal status: GBL is a chemical precursor under Law No. 23 of 2016 and not a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance, and the distinction changes which penalty article applies. Article 2 defines the class as «السلائف الكيميائية: كل مادة كيميائية يمكن أن ينتج منها أو تدخل في صناعة أو تساعد على إنتاج المواد المخدرة أو المؤثرات العقلية والمدرجة في الجدولين رقم (11) و(12) الملحقين بهذا القانون.», chemical precursors being chemicals capable of producing, entering into the manufacture of, or assisting the production of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, and listed in Schedules 11 and 12 attached to this Law. The placement is Schedule 11, printed «الجدول رقم (11): غاما بيوتيرولاكتون», gamma-butyrolactone, and the penalty articles that follow from it are 17 and 37. The relationship this row must keep straight is with GHB, which converts from GBL in the body and which Jordan schedules separately and expressly at Schedule 6 as «غاما هيدروكسي بيوتيرات». They are two entries in two different parts of the apparatus, and the precursor listing is what places GBL under article 17 rather than making it automatically an article 20 capital substance. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may amend any attached schedule by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The article written for a Schedule 11 or 12 chemical precursor is article 17 of Law No. 23 of 2016, and article 17 contains no life penalty and no death penalty. For the specified acts done with intent to use the precursor in manufacturing or producing a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance, it imposes temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years together with a fine of between ten thousand and thirty thousand Jordanian dinars. There is no weight threshold in article 17, so quantity does not move the exposure up or down, and intent to use the substance in manufacture is an element of the offence rather than an aggravating feature of it. The practical reading for GBL is that its own classification is the precursor one, and this is the exposure that classification carries. Article 37 of the Law, which provides for treatment of an addict, is the other provision the dossier attaches to this row.
If prescribed / medical: GBL is controlled as a chemical precursor, and the article written for it turns on intent to use the substance in manufacturing or producing a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance. There is no human medical route for GBL to describe: it is an industrial solvent and cleaning agent, and it reaches consumers through those markets rather than through a pharmacy. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is any supply or dispensing condition. Jordan's chemical import, industrial and medicines regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no prescription to carry for GBL and no traveller carriage allowance under Law No. 23 of 2016, because no traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text as read for this row. A commercial or industrial consignment is the realistic case, and that is a matter for import licensing and customs declaration rather than for a personal document, with the Jordan Food and Drug Administration the body to approach in writing and in advance. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. The Schedule 11 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 11 chemical precursor entry for GBL «الجدول رقم (11): غاما بيوتيرولاكتون», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 11 and 12 precursor definition, article 17 the penalty route, article 37 the amendment power and the treatment provision, and GHB separately at Schedule 6 · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: GHB is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. GHB is expressly listed at Schedule 6 as gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, printed «الجدول رقم (6): غاما هيدروكسي بيوتيرات», so the acronym is tied to the exact scheduled chemical. The companion fact that governs the practical position is that GBL, from which GHB forms, is a Schedule 11 chemical precursor and follows article 17 instead, so two closely linked substances sit in two different parts of the apparatus with two different penalty structures. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.»
Consequences if caught: GHB's Schedule 6 listing makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. GHB travels as a liquid in small bottles, which is why the contrast with GBL matters: the same physical object can be one substance or the other, and the article that applies changes accordingly.
If prescribed / medical: GHB has a licensed medical use in some countries, as sodium oxybate for narcolepsy, and that does not lift the Jordanian control. It is a Schedule 6 psychotropic substance here, and a foreign prescription for sodium oxybate is not a Jordanian authorisation and does not become one at the border. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: If a sodium oxybate preparation has genuinely been prescribed to you, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription, a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. Do not carry the substance in an unlabelled bottle under any circumstances, since an unmarked liquid is the least explicable item a traveller can hold. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 6 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 6 entry for GHB as gamma-hydroxybutyric acid «الجدول رقم (6): غاما هيدروكسي بيوتيرات», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · GBL is separately a Schedule 11 precursor following article 17 · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Heroin is a narcotic drug under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المادة المخدرة: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (1) و(2) و(3) و(4) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», a narcotic drug being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 attached to this Law. Heroin is expressly named at Schedule 1, printed «الجدول رقم (1): هيروين», so the narcotic trafficking and aggravation provisions apply to that substance directly and nothing has to be inferred from the opium it is made from, which Jordan schedules separately in the same table. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», which is to say the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may amend any attached schedule by deleting or adding a substance or changing the stated percentages, specifications or conditions, provided the amendment is published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Heroin's Schedule 1 placement puts it at the top of the Law's narcotic structure, where article 20 states the ceiling in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», death. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory on the article's own wording once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances, which is the limb that a cross-border consignment is most likely to meet. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. No weight threshold appears in article 19 or in article 20, so there is no gram figure below which a traveller is safe and none above which death follows, and the aggravating circumstance decides between fifteen years, mandatory life and mandatory death.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route for heroin in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a narcotic drug at Schedule 1 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and has no dispensed medical use there, so the only thing worth saying about intent is structural: the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. Diamorphine is a licensed medicine in a small number of other countries, and a foreign licence is not a Jordanian one and does not become one at the border. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes heroin lawful to carry, and no traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, and Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator rather than this page is where any question about a licensed opioid preparation is settled, in writing and before travel. A prescription for a different opioid does not cover this substance, and a foreign diamorphine prescription is not a Jordanian authorisation. The Schedule 1 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 1 entry for heroin «الجدول رقم (1): هيروين», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 narcotic drug definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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HHC

Legal status: HHC is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Hexahydrocannabinol is expressly included in Schedule 6, printed «الجدول رقم (6): هكساهيدروكانابينول», so its status here is not being inferred from structural similarity to THC. That express listing is the answer to the commercial argument that HHC is a hydrogenated cannabinoid outside the THC definitions and therefore outside drug law: whatever force that argument has elsewhere, Jordan has named the compound. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», which is the power under which novel cannabinoids are added.
Consequences if caught: HHC's Schedule 6 listing makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. The expectation to correct here is the same as for delta-8: HHC vapes, gummies and flower are sold over the counter in several markets, and open retail sale abroad has no bearing on a Jordanian schedule entry.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for HHC in Jordan to describe. It is expressly controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 6 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and is not a dispensed medicine, and its sale as a consumer cannabinoid product elsewhere is not a permission here. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing, dispensing or retail conditions; Jordan's separate medicines, food and supplement regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes an HHC product lawful to carry into Jordan, and a retail receipt or a hemp-derived marketing claim is not one. Because the compound is named in the schedule, a certificate of analysis identifying it confirms the position rather than answering it. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Treat a cartridge, a gummy or a pre-roll as what it contains rather than as what the shop called it. The Schedule 6 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 6 entry for hexahydrocannabinol «الجدول رقم (6): هكساهيدروكانابينول», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Hydrocodone is a narcotic drug under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المادة المخدرة: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (1) و(2) و(3) و(4) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», a narcotic drug being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 attached to this Law. Hydrocodone is expressly listed at Schedule 1, printed «الجدول رقم (1): هيدروكودون», and its capital and life exposure therefore depends on the article 19 and 20 circumstances rather than on the dosage or on how familiar the drug is as a prescription. That last point is worth stating because hydrocodone reaches most patients inside a combination product, typically with paracetamol, and the combination does not lower the schedule of the controlled component. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may amend any attached schedule by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Hydrocodone's Schedule 1 placement puts it inside articles 19 and 20, where article 20 states the ceiling in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», death. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold, so a bottle of combination tablets sits in the same provisions as pure material and the aggravating circumstance decides the sentence.
If prescribed / medical: Hydrocodone is a prescribed opioid, most often supplied as a cough preparation or as a combination analgesic, and being a medicine does not lift the control. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. The combination format is the trap on this row: a product whose label leads with paracetamol still contains a Schedule 1 narcotic, and a patient who thinks of it as a painkiller rather than as an opioid may carry a quantity accordingly. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Make sure the paperwork names hydrocodone and not only the brand or the combination, because the controlled ingredient is what has to be accounted for. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 1 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 1 entry for hydrocodone «الجدول رقم (1): هيدروكودون», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 narcotic drug definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Ketamine

Legal status: Ketamine is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Ketamine is individually named at Schedule 9, printed «الجدول رقم (9): كيتامين», which provides a direct psychotropic schedule basis for any trafficking analysis. The entry is for ketamine itself: MXE, its methoxylated relative, is separately listed at Schedule 6, and 2-FDCK, the fluorinated deschloro analogue, could not be resolved by this table at all, so neither of those is covered by this row. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.»
Consequences if caught: Ketamine's Schedule 9 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», and its status as an essential anaesthetic does not take it outside that structure. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold.
If prescribed / medical: Ketamine is a genuine and important medicine, used as an anaesthetic, in emergency and veterinary practice, and increasingly for treatment-resistant depression, and being a medicine does not lift the Schedule 9 control. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. The clinical forms matter here: ketamine is normally administered in a hospital or clinic rather than dispensed for a patient to carry, so a traveller holding a vial or a nasal spray is in an unusual position that the paperwork needs to explain. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging if a ketamine preparation was dispensed to you, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's or the clinic's details legible. Because the drug is usually given rather than taken away, a letter from the treating service explaining why a supply is being carried is worth more here than on most rows. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 9 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 9 entry for ketamine «الجدول رقم (9): كيتامين», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · methoxetamine is separately at Schedule 6 and 2-FDCK is unresolved on its own row · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Khat

Legal status: Khat is resolved through its scheduled constituents together with the Law's plant limb, rather than through a guessed plant-name entry. The leaf produces cathinone, which is expressly listed at Schedule 5, and cathine, which is listed at Schedule 7, and article 19(a)(1) separately reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. One inconsistency in the source is recorded rather than smoothed over: the dossier's row mapping prints «الجدول رقم (5): القات», a Schedule 5 entry for khat itself, while the same row's reasoning states that khat is resolved through cathinone and cathine and not through a plant-name entry. This cell follows the constituent and plant-limb analysis, which is the narrower and better supported of the two, and the result is the same either way. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.»
Consequences if caught: Khat reaches articles 19 and 20 by two routes at once, its scheduled constituents and the plant limb, and article 20 states the ceiling in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», death. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic, and its first limb reaches the plant as such. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. Two things about how khat is actually used are worth stating: it moves in bulk because fresh leaf loses potency quickly, and a bundle for a social session is a large physical volume, so the amounts involved are naturally large even for personal use, and no threshold exists to make that matter either way.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for khat in Jordan to describe. Its constituents are controlled as psychotropic substances under Law No. 23 of 2016, cathinone at Schedule 5 and cathine at Schedule 7, and the leaf has no dispensed medical use, and a cultural or customary use in the traveller's country of origin is not a Jordanian permission. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes khat lawful to carry into Jordan, and the fact that it is legally traded in some neighbouring and regional markets is not a permission here. Fresh plant material also meets agricultural inspection, and a bundle of leaf is not something that can be explained as a personal medicine. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 5 cathinone and Schedule 7 cathine placements relied on here were read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, khat resolved through the Schedule 5 cathinone entry and the Schedule 7 cathine entry together with article 19(a)(1), which reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances · article 2 supplies the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · the dossier's row mapping separately printed «الجدول رقم (5): القات», a plant-name entry, which its own reasoning disclaims, and this cell follows the constituent and plant-limb analysis · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Kratom

Legal status: Whether Kratom is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ kratom: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for Kratom: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were Kratom, Mitragyna speciosa and the Arabic plant variants, cross-checked against mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine. Neither the species nor its principal alkaloid names were located, so the plant route and the constituent route are unresolved together, which is why this row cannot be closed from the alkaloid rows and they cannot be closed from it. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind, and article 19(a)(1) separately reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a plant or a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. Neither Mitragyna speciosa nor its alkaloids were found in the last searchable schedule, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open and two branches follow. If the plant and its alkaloids are genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added the plant or an alkaloid to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, two provisions become available at once: articles 19 and 20 in the ordinary way, and article 19(a)(1), which reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances as such, so a leaf can be the offence without any extraction step. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess, and a traveller should read the harsher one.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for Kratom, because the control status that would drive it is not established, and there is no Jordanian medical route for a kratom preparation to describe. The more likely Jordanian control for imported leaf, powder or capsules is the food, supplement and import regime rather than the narcotics schedules, and that regime was not audited for this table. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for Kratom, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry leaf, powder, capsules or an extract. A botanical product is inspected as a foodstuff as well as a possible drug, and a concentrated extract invites a laboratory reading that ordinary leaf does not. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for Kratom after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the plant and its alkaloids are genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19(a)(1), 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled either · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Lorazepam is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Lorazepam is individually listed at Schedule 9, printed «الجدول رقم (9): لورازيبام», so the result is specific to lorazepam rather than to the benzodiazepine family as a whole. Its clinical profile, short acting and used for acute anxiety, for sedation before procedures and for status epilepticus, makes no difference to the classification: the schedule membership test is what the Law applies. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.»
Consequences if caught: Lorazepam's Schedule 9 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. Lorazepam is prescribed in small numbers of tablets for short courses, which means a traveller often carries only a few, and a few tablets of a Schedule 9 substance are still a Schedule 9 substance.
If prescribed / medical: Lorazepam is a standard prescribed anxiolytic and sedative, and being a medicine does not lift the Schedule 9 control. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. Because the drug is often prescribed for use as needed rather than daily, patients frequently carry loose tablets from an old prescription, and that is the shape in which an ordinary medicine becomes an unaccountable one. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Keep tablets in the labelled pack rather than loose in a wallet or a bag, and bring a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 9 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 9 entry for lorazepam «الجدول رقم (9): لورازيبام», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: Whether LSA is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ lsa: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for LSA: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were LSA, ergine, lysergic acid amide and D-lysergic acid amide. The near miss here is a precursor rather than a drug: Schedule 11 carries lysergic acid, and that entry was reviewed and rejected because the acid is not the amide. LSD is separately and expressly in Schedule 5, and it is a third compound again. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. Three compounds sit close together here and only two of them are listed: LSD in Schedule 5, lysergic acid as a Schedule 11 precursor, and ergine itself nowhere that the search could reach. The placement that the penalty depends on is therefore still open and two branches follow. If LSA is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way: article 19(b) makes life imprisonment mandatory on «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة» once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 makes death mandatory on «يعاقب بالإعدام» where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. There is a third possibility that is specific to this row and should not be lost: material handled as a route to lysergic acid or to LSD engages the precursor and narcotic provisions on its own terms, whatever ergine's status is. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess, and a traveller should read the harsher one.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for LSA, because the control status that would drive it is not established. There is no medical route to describe. The practical form of this substance is seed, and Jordan's food, agricultural and import regimes, which were not audited for this table, are the more likely place for a control on seed to sit. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for LSA, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry ergine or the seed it comes from. Seed crossing a border meets plant and agricultural controls as well as drug ones, and a preparation made from it moves the question toward the scheduled lysergic compounds. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for LSA after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · the Schedule 11 lysergic acid precursor entry was reviewed and rejected as the acid rather than the amide, and LSD is separately at Schedule 5 · article 14(a) is the fallback route if LSA is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: LSD is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. LSD is expressly listed at Schedule 5, printed «الجدول رقم (5): ثنائي إيثيل أميد حمض الليسرجيك», lysergic acid diethylamide. That entry is for LSD itself and it does not automatically extend to 1P-LSD or to lysergic acid amide, both of which this table treats on their own rows and neither of which could be closed from this one. Lysergic acid, the precursor, sits separately in Schedule 11 and follows a different penalty article again. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add an analogue by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: LSD's Schedule 5 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, and the absence of a threshold is particularly consequential here: LSD is dosed in micrograms and carried on paper, so a sheet weighing almost nothing is inside the same provisions as any other amount.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for LSD in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 5 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and has no dispensed medical use there. Research and clinical trial work with psychedelics elsewhere does not create a Jordanian permission, and a foreign study protocol or investigator's letter is not an authorisation here. The only structural point worth making is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes LSD lawful to carry, and none that a traveller could produce for it. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator is where a question about a licensed substance is settled, in writing and before travel. The form the substance travels in is worth noting for a different reason: blotter paper looks like nothing, and that is not a defence but an explanation of how people carry a Schedule 5 substance without thinking of it as one. The Schedule 5 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 5 entry for LSD «الجدول رقم (5): ثنائي إيثيل أميد حمض الليسرجيك», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power, and the Schedule 11 lysergic acid precursor entry noted as a separate provision following article 17 · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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MDA

Legal status: MDA is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. MDA is verified through the Schedule 5 entry printed «الجدول رقم (5): MDA», which the schedule identifies as tenamfetamine, the exact chemical, and that identification is what prevents the row being confused with MDMA or with another methylenedioxy amphetamine. The two are separately listed in the same schedule, so nothing turns on telling them apart for the purposes of control, but the entry relied on here is the MDA one. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may amend the list by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: MDA's Schedule 5 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold. MDA is also a metabolite of MDMA and is sold in the same market, so a sample can name either compound and both are scheduled: there is no version of that ambiguity that helps.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for MDA in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 5 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and has no dispensed medical use there or anywhere that would carry weight at a Jordanian border. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes MDA lawful to carry, and none that a traveller could produce for it. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. The Schedule 5 placement, identified by the tenamfetamine chemical name, was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 5 entry for MDA «الجدول رقم (5): MDA», identified by the tenamfetamine chemical name, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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MDMA

Legal status: MDMA is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. MDMA is individually scheduled at Schedule 5, printed «الجدول رقم (5): MDMA», so its status does not depend on any assumption about the word ecstasy or about what a tablet sold under that name contains. That distinction runs both ways and matters at the sample level: a pill sold as ecstasy may contain MDMA, or MDA, which is separately listed in the same schedule, or methamphetamine from Schedule 6, or a cathinone, and each of those is its own entry. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may amend the list by a Gazette decision.
Consequences if caught: MDMA's Schedule 5 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold. One practical warning follows from how this drug is used socially: carrying tablets for other people in a group is a supply act on its face, whatever was agreed between friends.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for MDMA in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 5 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and has no dispensed medical use there. Clinical trial programmes for MDMA-assisted therapy exist in other jurisdictions and they create no Jordanian permission, so a study document, an investigator's letter or a foreign approval is not an authorisation here. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes MDMA lawful to carry, and none that a traveller could produce for it. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. Worth knowing for a different reason: what a tablet is called has no bearing on which schedule entry is applied, because the analysis names the compound and several of the compounds it might name are separately listed. The Schedule 5 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 5 entry for MDMA «الجدول رقم (5): MDMA», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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MDPV

Legal status: MDPV is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. MDPV is matched to its exact Schedule 6 chemical identity, printed «الجدول رقم (6): MDPV», and not to a name resemblance with methylone, mephedrone or another cathinone. Those compounds are each listed separately in the same schedule, so the family is well represented, but the entry relied on here is the MDPV one and the match is made on the chemical identity rather than on the shared cathinone backbone. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.»
Consequences if caught: MDPV's Schedule 6 listing makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. MDPV is potent in small amounts and was for years sold under bath salts and plant food labelling, and neither the small mass nor the false product description touches the entry that applies.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for MDPV in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 6 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and has no dispensed medical use there or anywhere. For years it was sold openly in shops under bath salts and plant food labelling, and being available on a shelf is not a medical authorisation, a retail authorisation or any kind of permission. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes MDPV lawful to carry, and a product label describing it as bath salts, plant food or a research chemical is not one; it is a misdescription of a scheduled substance. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. The Schedule 6 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 6 entry for MDPV «الجدول رقم (6): MDPV», matched on its exact chemical identity rather than on the cathinone family resemblance, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Memantine

Legal status: Whether Memantine is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ memantine: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for Memantine: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were Memantine and 1-amino-3,5-dimethyladamantane, and the PCP and arylcyclohexylamine entries were checked because memantine shares a receptor target with them. It does not share their chemistry: the adamantane cage is not the scheduled phencyclidine identity, so the PCP entry cannot be read across, and no exact memantine entry was recovered. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. A shared pharmacological target is not a shared schedule entry, and memantine's adamantane structure is nothing like the listed phencyclidine, so nothing on the list has been matched to it and the placement that the penalty depends on is still open. Two branches follow. If memantine is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available, and the article 14(a) element, intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind, would rarely be present for a dementia medicine taken as prescribed. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way: article 19(b) makes life imprisonment mandatory on «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة» once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 makes death mandatory on «يعاقب بالإعدام» where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess, and a traveller should read the harsher one.
If prescribed / medical: Memantine is a prescribed medicine for Alzheimer's disease, and this row's deferral is about its narcotics-law status rather than its medical standing. No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for it, because the control status that would drive it is not established, and a medicine can be prescription-only in Jordan without appearing on a Law No. 23 schedule at all. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Where the medicine is being carried for a patient who is travelling with a companion, a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period is worth more than the box alone. No carriage rule for this substance can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016, because its control status could not be closed, and an absent instruction is not a permission. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration can settle a specific case in writing before you fly. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for Memantine after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · the PCP and arylcyclohexylamine entries were checked and rejected as a different chemical identity · article 14(a) is the fallback route if memantine is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Mephedrone is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Mephedrone is expressly listed at Schedule 6 as 4-MMC, printed «الجدول رقم (6): ميفيدرون». The position of the methyl group is the whole of the identification: 4-MMC is chemically distinct from 3-MMC, which Jordan lists separately in the same schedule, and reading one entry as covering the other would be an error even though both happen to be controlled here. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», which is how further members of this family are added.
Consequences if caught: Mephedrone's Schedule 6 listing makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. Mephedrone is used in relatively large individual doses and is redosed heavily over a session, so the amounts people carry are larger than for most compounds in this table, and no threshold exists for that to matter either way.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for mephedrone in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 6 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and has no dispensed medical use there or anywhere. Its brief commercial life was as a plant food and bath salt product rather than as a medicine, and the successor compound that replaced it after control, 3-MMC, is separately scheduled here as well. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes mephedrone lawful to carry, and none that a traveller could produce for it. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. The Schedule 6 placement as 4-MMC was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 6 entry for mephedrone «الجدول رقم (6): ميفيدرون», listed as 4-MMC and chemically distinct from the separately listed 3-MMC, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Mescaline is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Mescaline is expressly listed at Schedule 5, printed «الجدول رقم (5): مسكالين». That entry does a second job on this table: it is also the constituent basis for the peyote analysis, since a cactus is reached because mescaline is actually present in it rather than because of the plant's name, and the same logic would apply to any other mescaline-bearing species. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a species or a further constituent by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Mescaline's Schedule 5 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic, and article 19(a)(1) separately reaches a plant producing psychotropic substances. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold, and because the compound occurs naturally at low concentration a large mass of plant material can represent a modest number of doses without that reducing anything.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for mescaline in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 5 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and has no dispensed medical use there, and a ceremonial or religious use recognised in another country is not a Jordanian permission. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes mescaline or mescaline-bearing material lawful to carry, and none that a traveller could produce for it. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. A cactus carried as an ornamental plant meets agricultural inspection as well, and a plant that contains the compound is reached through this entry whatever it is being carried as. The Schedule 5 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 5 entry for mescaline «الجدول رقم (5): مسكالين», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, article 19(a)(1) the plant limb, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · the same entry supplies the constituent basis for the peyote row · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Methadone is a narcotic drug under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المادة المخدرة: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (1) و(2) و(3) و(4) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», a narcotic drug being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 attached to this Law. Methadone is expressly named at Schedule 1, printed «الجدول رقم (1): ميثادون», so the narcotic trafficking provisions apply to it directly despite its medical-use context, and the fact that its principal use is in treating dependence on other opioids does not put it in a different part of the apparatus. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may amend any attached schedule by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Methadone's Schedule 1 placement puts it inside articles 19 and 20, where article 20 states the ceiling in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, and its therapeutic purpose does not take it outside that structure. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold. One distinction is worth keeping in view on this row: passing a dose to another person is a supply act, and the fact that both people are in treatment does not make it something else.
If prescribed / medical: Methadone is a maintenance and detoxification medicine as well as an analgesic, and its Schedule 1 placement means a lawful supply runs inside Law No. 23 of 2016 rather than around it. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. The practical difficulty specific to methadone is that treatment programmes usually dispense daily or weekly under supervision rather than issuing a quantity to carry, so a traveller needs the prescribing service to arrange and document a take-home supply in advance, and a foreign programme's arrangements are not a Jordanian authorisation. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's or the clinic's details legible. A letter from the treating service naming the patient, the active ingredient, the daily dose and the period covered is close to essential here, because a take-home supply of a Schedule 1 narcotic is exactly the situation that needs explaining. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 1 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 1 entry for methadone «الجدول رقم (1): ميثادون», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 narcotic drug definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Methamphetamine is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Methamphetamine is expressly listed at Schedule 6, printed «الجدول رقم (6): ميثامفيتامين», and it must not be substituted for the separate amphetamine entry in the same schedule: two entries, two molecules. Ephedrine, from which methamphetamine can be manufactured, sits in Schedule 11 as a chemical precursor and follows article 17 rather than these articles, which is a distinction in kind rather than in degree. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.»
Consequences if caught: Methamphetamine's Schedule 6 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. This is nonetheless a substance whose regional trade is organised across borders at scale, which is precisely the factual setting in which the article 20 international aggravators are argued, so the aggravator that matters is a live prosecutorial question rather than a theoretical one.
If prescribed / medical: Methamphetamine has a narrow licensed medical use in a small number of countries and no dispensed medical use in Jordan that this reading identified. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 6 of Law No. 23 of 2016, and a foreign prescription for a methamphetamine preparation is not a Jordanian authorisation and does not become one at the border. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes methamphetamine lawful to carry into Jordan, and a foreign prescription for a licensed preparation is evidence of origin rather than permission. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. The Schedule 6 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 6 entry for methamphetamine «الجدول رقم (6): ميثامفيتامين», distinct from the separate Schedule 6 amphetamine entry, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · ephedrine is separately a Schedule 11 precursor following article 17 · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Methaqualone is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Methaqualone is individually named at Schedule 6, printed «الجدول رقم (6): ميثاكوالون», which gives it an exact schedule basis independent of any sedative class label. That independence is worth stating because methaqualone is a quinazolinone and not a barbiturate or a benzodiazepine, and this table resolves those two classes by their own separate member lists. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», which is to say the Council of Ministers may amend any attached schedule by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Methaqualone's Schedule 6 listing makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. Methaqualone has been off the licensed market for decades, so any material encountered now is illicitly manufactured and often is not methaqualone at all, which does not improve the position of the person holding it.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for methaqualone in Jordan to describe. It was withdrawn from medical use internationally many years ago and is controlled here as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 6 of Law No. 23 of 2016, so there is no current prescription anywhere that would describe it. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes methaqualone lawful to carry, and none exists to be produced, since no current licensed product uses it. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. The Schedule 6 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 6 entry for methaqualone «الجدول رقم (6): ميثاكوالون», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Methylone

Legal status: Methylone is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Methylone is expressly listed at Schedule 6, printed «الجدول رقم (6): ميثيلون», and it is that entry rather than the compound's relationship to MDMA that closes the row. Methylone is the beta-keto analogue of MDMA, and while MDMA is separately scheduled at Schedule 5, that relationship is not being used here as a substitute for an actual entry, because a structural resemblance is not a listing. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a further analogue by a Gazette decision.
Consequences if caught: Methylone's Schedule 6 listing makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. Methylone has long been sold as though it were MDMA, and both compounds are listed here, so the misdescription changes which entry is applied and changes nothing about the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for methylone in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 6 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and has no dispensed medical use there or anywhere. Its chemical closeness to MDMA gives it no medical standing either, since MDMA is itself a scheduled substance in Jordan and not a licensed medicine, so the analogy leads nowhere useful in either direction. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes methylone lawful to carry, and none that a traveller could produce for it. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. The Schedule 6 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 6 entry for methylone «الجدول رقم (6): ميثيلون», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · MDMA is separately listed at Schedule 5 and the beta-keto relationship is not relied on here · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Methylphenidate is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Methylphenidate is individually listed at Schedule 6, printed «الجدول رقم (6): ميثيل فينيدات», so it is resolved by exact identity rather than by stimulant category, and nothing about the result depends on grouping it with the amphetamines, which have their own separate entries in the same schedule. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», which is to say the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may amend any attached schedule by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Methylphenidate's Schedule 6 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», however ordinary the medicine is in a school bag at home. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved, one of which is committing the offence with or through a minor. That aggravator deserves attention on this row above all others, because methylphenidate is prescribed largely to children, and an arrangement involving a minor is exactly the circumstance article 19(b) singles out. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure.
If prescribed / medical: Methylphenidate is a mainstream prescribed treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy, and being a medicine does not lift the Schedule 6 control. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. Where the patient is a child, the medicine is normally carried by a parent, and the paperwork should name the child as the patient so that the person holding the tablets and the person prescribed them are visibly connected. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. For a child's medicine, bring a doctor's letter naming the child as the patient along with the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and carry it with the person responsible for the child. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 6 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 6 entry for methylphenidate «الجدول رقم (6): ميثيل فينيدات», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions including the article 19(b) minor aggravator, and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Mitragynine

Legal status: Whether Mitragynine is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ mitragynine: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for Mitragynine: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were Mitragynine, Mitragynine pseudoindoxyl and the kratom alkaloid terms. The alkaloid itself was not located, so kratom-related status cannot be inferred from unrelated opioid entries, and the schedules do carry a long list of opioids whose presence says nothing about this indole alkaloid. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. Mitragynine acts at opioid receptors and is not an opiate by chemistry, and the opioid entries the schedules do carry are all different molecules, so nothing on the list has been matched to it and the placement that the penalty depends on is still open. Two branches follow. If mitragynine is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way, and a purified alkaloid is the form most likely to be treated that way. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess, and a traveller should read the harsher one.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for Mitragynine, because the control status that would drive it is not established, and there is no Jordanian medical route for the isolated alkaloid to describe. An isolated or enriched alkaloid is a different regulatory object from the leaf it came from, and Jordan's medicines, food and supplement regimes, which were not audited for this table, are the more likely place for a control on it to sit. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for Mitragynine, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry the alkaloid or a product standardised on it. A declared alkaloid content on a label is an invitation to a laboratory reading, which is precisely what moves a product from the unresolved branch to a determined one. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for Mitragynine after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the alkaloid is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Modafinil

Legal status: Whether Modafinil is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ modafinil: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for Modafinil: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were Modafinil, 2-[(diphenylmethyl)sulfinyl]acetamide and the Arabic مودافينيل. No exact entry was recovered. The surrounding context matters on this row: Schedule 6 expressly carries amphetamine, methamphetamine and methylphenidate, so the psychostimulant schedule is populated, and the absence of modafinil from the searchable text is a statement about that text rather than a general finding about wakefulness drugs. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. Methylphenidate and the amphetamines are expressly in Schedule 6 and modafinil was not found there or anywhere else the search could reach, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open. Two branches follow. If modafinil is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, which is the limb that a bulk consignment ordered online would meet. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess, and a traveller should read the harsher one.
If prescribed / medical: Modafinil is a prescription medicine for narcolepsy and related disorders, and this row's deferral is about its narcotics-law status rather than its medical standing. No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for it, because the control status that would drive it is not established, and a medicine can be prescription-only in Jordan, or refused entry by post, without appearing on a Law No. 23 schedule at all. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. This is a drug that is widely bought without a prescription for non-medical use, which is the fact that makes the paperwork worth having rather than a formality, and a quantity beyond a personal course invites the trafficking question rather than the possession one. No carriage rule can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016, because the control status could not be closed, and an absent instruction is not a permission. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration can settle a specific case in writing before you fly. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for Modafinil after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Morphine

Legal status: Morphine is a narcotic drug under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المادة المخدرة: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (1) و(2) و(3) و(4) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», a narcotic drug being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 attached to this Law. Morphine is expressly listed at Schedule 1, printed «الجدول رقم (1): مورفين». It also appears in the Schedule 10 preparation rules, which is the provision that does the practical work on this row: a preparation's concentration and form can change how that particular product is treated, so the finished dosage form has to be read where it is relevant rather than assumed from the active ingredient alone. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», and the power to change the stated percentages, «تعديل النسب», is precisely what can move a preparation across a Schedule 10 line.
Consequences if caught: Morphine's Schedule 1 placement puts it inside articles 19 and 20, where article 20 states the ceiling in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, and the fact that it is one of medicine's most necessary drugs does not take it out of that structure. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold, and what decides the sentence is the aggravating circumstance rather than the amount.
If prescribed / medical: Morphine is the reference opioid analgesic and a lawful medical supply runs inside Law No. 23 of 2016 rather than around it. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. The Schedule 10 preparation rules matter here in a way they do not for most substances: low-content preparations are addressed separately, so the strength of a syrup, tablet or modified-release form can change the treatment of that product, and a patient should know the strength and not only the name. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Bring a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the dose and the treatment period, and note that the strength is worth stating explicitly because of the Schedule 10 preparation rules. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 1 placement and the Schedule 10 preparation rule were read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 1 entry for morphine «الجدول رقم (1): مورفين», with the Schedule 10 preparation rule, article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 narcotic drug definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power including the power to change the stated percentages · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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MXE

Legal status: MXE is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. MXE is the exact Schedule 6 compound (RS)-2-(3-methoxyphenyl)-2-(ethylamino)cyclohexanone, printed «الجدول رقم (6): ميثوكسيتامين». The identification matters because a neighbouring entry in the same schedule, 1-(1-(3-methoxyphenyl)cyclohexyl)piperidine, is 3-MeO-PCP and is not MXE: the two names share the 3-methoxyphenyl fragment and describe different molecules. Ketamine, from which MXE takes its arylcyclohexylamine skeleton, is separately listed at Schedule 9 again. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.»
Consequences if caught: MXE's Schedule 6 listing makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. MXE was designed and sold as a legal substitute for ketamine, and in Jordan both it and ketamine are listed, so the substitution achieves nothing legally.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for MXE in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 6 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and has no dispensed medical use there or anywhere, and it should not be confused with ketamine, which does have one. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes MXE lawful to carry, and a research chemical label or a prescription for ketamine is not one, since ketamine is a different scheduled substance. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. The Schedule 6 placement, identified by the full chemical name, was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 6 entry for methoxetamine «الجدول رقم (6): ميثوكسيتامين», identified as (RS)-2-(3-methoxyphenyl)-2-(ethylamino)cyclohexanone and distinguished from the neighbouring 1-(1-(3-methoxyphenyl)cyclohexyl)piperidine entry, which is 3-MeO-PCP · article 2 supplies the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Nicotine

Legal status: Nicotine is outside the Law No. 23 of 2016 scheduling question altogether, and the schedule search that establishes that is recorded as «بحث الجداول عن نيكوتين: لا يوجد قيد مطابق في جداول المواد المخدرة أو المؤثرات العقلية.», a schedule search for nicotine returning no matching narcotic or psychotropic entry. The Law's definitions are membership tests rather than descriptions: article 2 makes «المادة المخدرة» every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4, and «المؤثرات العقلية» every such substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9, so a dependence-forming stimulant that appears on no schedule is not a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance for this Law. Nicotine appears on none of them. It is governed instead through Public Health Law No. 47 of 2008 and the tobacco and nicotine product rules made under it, which reach advertising, sale to minors, smoking in public places and the licensing of products, and which this schedule audit did not read. The only limb of Law No. 23 that could reach an unlisted substance at all is article 14(a), «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law, taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the death penalty nor life imprisonment reaches nicotine through Law No. 23 of 2016, because articles 19 and 20 operate on scheduled narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and chemical precursors, and nicotine is in none of those classes. There is no drug quantity threshold either, because a threshold is something a schedule entry carries and there is no entry. Article 14, the only limb capable of reaching an unlisted substance, is non-capital in any event. The Jordanian consequences that do attach to nicotine come from public health legislation rather than from drug legislation, and they are real: rules on where a product may be used, to whom it may be sold, how it may be advertised and which nicotine delivery products may lawfully be imported or sold at all. Those were not audited for this table, and a product that is ordinary in one country can be a prohibited import in another. This cell says the narcotics law is not the instrument, and it says nothing about what the public health instrument requires.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from Law No. 23 of 2016 for nicotine, because the Law does not schedule it and there is no control here for a prescription to lift. Licensed nicotine replacement products are medicines or regulated consumer products under the Jordanian medicines and public health regimes rather than under the narcotics schedules, and those regimes were not audited for this row. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions, so another regime is treated here as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: No documentation is required for nicotine by the narcotics law, and no carriage allowance is granted by it either, because a carriage requirement under that statute is something a schedule entry creates and there is no entry. That is a narrow answer rather than a clearance, and on this row the narrowness matters: customs allowances, product bans and public health restrictions on nicotine delivery devices are the rules a traveller actually meets, and they sit in instruments this table did not read. Check the current position on the specific product before you travel rather than on arrival. The schedule search recorded above was run against the official consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, no narcotic or psychotropic schedule entry for nicotine after a search of the attached schedules, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 and Schedules 5 to 9 membership tests and article 14(a) the only limb capable of reaching an unlisted substance · the governing Jordanian regime is Public Health Law No. 47 of 2008 together with the tobacco and nicotine product rules, which were not audited for this row · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Nimetazepam is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Nimetazepam is expressly named at Schedule 9, printed «الجدول رقم (9): نيميتازيبام», which makes the mapping substance-specific rather than a benzodiazepine-class shortcut. It is the least familiar of the five benzodiazepines the Jordanian schedules name, having been marketed principally in East and Southeast Asia and long withdrawn in most places, and its individual listing is what carries the class row here rather than any general clause. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.»
Consequences if caught: Nimetazepam's Schedule 9 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. Since the drug is off the licensed market almost everywhere, material encountered now is illicitly supplied, which means there is usually no prescription to produce even in principle.
If prescribed / medical: Nimetazepam has been withdrawn from the licensed market in most countries, so there is very little prescribing route left to describe anywhere and none in Jordan that this reading identified. It is controlled here as a Schedule 9 psychotropic substance. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: If a licensed nimetazepam product was genuinely dispensed to you somewhere it remains available, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. In practice a tablet carrying this compound is more likely to be illicitly pressed than dispensed, and no document covers that. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 9 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 9 entry for nimetazepam «الجدول رقم (9): نيميتازيبام», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Nitrous Oxide

Legal status: Whether Nitrous oxide is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ nitrous-oxide: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for Nitrous oxide: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were nitrous oxide, N2O, dinitrogen monoxide and the Arabic أكسيد النيتروز, checked across Schedules 1 to 12, which is the whole of the narcotic, psychotropic and precursor apparatus. No exact narcotic, psychotropic or precursor listing was found. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind, and that wording is written for exactly this kind of item, an ordinary industrial and medical gas used for its effect on the mind. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. The whole span of Schedules 1 to 12 was searched and no entry was matched, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open, and article 14 is the branch that does most of the work on this row. If nitrous oxide is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. The intent element there is the whole question for this gas: the same canister is a medical anaesthetic, a whipped cream propellant and an inhalant, and article 14(a) reaches an unlisted substance taken «بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل», with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind, so purpose rather than possession is what the article is written to catch. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way, with mandatory life under «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة» on a listed aggravator and mandatory death under «يعاقب بالإعدام» on the international gang trigger, at any quantity. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess, and a traveller should read the harsher one.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for Nitrous oxide, because the control status that would drive it is not established. Medical nitrous oxide is supplied to hospitals and dental practices rather than dispensed to patients, so the prescription question barely arises in the ordinary sense, and the Jordanian controls that do reach the gas are more likely to be medical device, industrial gas, food additive and import controls. None of those were audited for this table. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix supply or dispensing conditions, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for Nitrous oxide, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry canisters. Pressurised cylinders and cartridges meet aviation dangerous goods rules and customs rules before they ever meet a drug law, and a quantity of cartridges is read as a purpose. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against Schedules 1 to 12 of the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for Nitrous oxide after a substance-specific search across Schedules 1 to 12 whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the gas is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Opium

Legal status: Opium is a narcotic drug under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المادة المخدرة: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (1) و(2) و(3) و(4) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», a narcotic drug being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 attached to this Law, and the words «كل مادة طبيعية», every natural substance, are why a plant exudate is reached as directly as a synthesised molecule. Opium is expressly scheduled at Schedule 1, printed «الجدول رقم (1): أفيون», and certain low-content preparations are separately treated in Schedule 10, so the form of the material matters. The poppy itself engages a further provision, since article 19(a)(1) reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, which means cultivation is addressed as well as possession of the gum. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may amend any attached schedule by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Opium's Schedule 1 placement puts it inside articles 19 and 20, where article 20 states the ceiling in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», death. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic, and the same article's plant limb reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold, and a traditional preparation carried for personal use is inside the same provisions as a consignment.
If prescribed / medical: Raw opium is not a dispensed medicine in Jordan, and the prescription question in practice concerns the alkaloids derived from it rather than the gum itself. Morphine and codeine are separately scheduled and separately prescribable, and a prescription for one of those describes that medicine and not opium. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. Schedule 10 addresses certain low-content preparations, which is the route by which some traditional or compounded products are treated differently from the raw material. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes raw opium lawful to carry, and none that a traveller could produce for it. Where a licensed opioid medicine derived from opium has been dispensed to you, carry that medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription, the prescriber's details and a doctor's letter, and keep the quantity to what the prescription covers. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a specific case, in writing and before travel. The Schedule 1 placement and the Schedule 10 preparation rule were read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 1 entry for opium «الجدول رقم (1): أفيون», with the Schedule 10 preparation rule, article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 narcotic drug definition, article 3 the scope provision, article 19(a)(1) the plant limb, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Oxycodone is a narcotic drug under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المادة المخدرة: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (1) و(2) و(3) و(4) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», a narcotic drug being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 attached to this Law. Oxycodone is expressly named at Schedule 1, printed «الجدول رقم (1): أوكسيكودون», so the exposure is determined by the trafficking circumstances rather than by a quantity table, and it does not depend on how familiar the drug is as a prescription in the traveller's own country. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», which is to say the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may amend any attached schedule by deleting or adding a substance or changing the stated percentages, specifications or conditions, provided the amendment is published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Oxycodone's Schedule 1 placement puts it inside articles 19 and 20, where article 20 states the ceiling in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», death. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold. The practical warning for this drug is that a bottle of tablets prescribed abroad is a Schedule 1 narcotic here, and a quantity beyond what a prescription visibly covers is what moves a case toward the trafficking limb.
If prescribed / medical: Oxycodone is a mainstream prescribed analgesic and being a medicine does not lift the control. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. The gap that catches people on this row is the gap between countries: a repeat prescription dispensed in a large quantity abroad is an ordinary event there and a large quantity of a Schedule 1 narcotic here, and the amount is what draws attention even though no article states a threshold. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Bring a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and do not carry a supply for a longer trip than the letter describes. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 1 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 1 entry for oxycodone «الجدول رقم (1): أوكسيكودون», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 narcotic drug definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: PCP is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. PCP is expressly listed at Schedule 6 as phencyclidine, printed «الجدول رقم (6): فينسيكليدين». It is chemically different from both MXE and 3-MeO-PCP despite the arylcyclohexylamine features they share, and those distinctions are worked out on their own rows; here the entry is the phencyclidine one and nothing is being inferred from the class. Memantine, which this table could not resolve, shares a receptor target with PCP and none of its chemistry, and it does not sit under this entry. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.»
Consequences if caught: PCP's Schedule 6 listing makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold, and PCP is often applied to plant material or a cigarette rather than carried as powder, which changes the appearance of what is held and not the entry that applies.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for PCP in Jordan to describe. It was withdrawn from human medicine long ago and has no dispensed medical use anywhere, and it is controlled here as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 6 of Law No. 23 of 2016. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes PCP lawful to carry, and none that a traveller could produce for it. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. The Schedule 6 placement as phencyclidine was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 6 entry for phencyclidine «الجدول رقم (6): فينسيكليدين», distinguished from the separately treated methoxetamine and 3-MeO-PCP entries, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Peyote

Legal status: Peyote is resolved through what it contains, mescaline, which is expressly listed at Schedule 5, and not through a plant-name entry. The cactus produces mescaline, and the mapping for this entry prints «الجدول رقم (5): مسكالين في البيوت», the Schedule 5 mescaline in peyote. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Alongside the constituent route there is a plant route: article 19(a)(1) reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, so the living cactus is addressed as such and not only as a container for the alkaloid. The plant name alone is not treated here as a substitute for constituent identification, which is the discipline that keeps this entry honest and which also means an ornamental cactus of a different species is a separate question. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so a plant could be named directly by a Gazette decision.
Consequences if caught: Two routes converge on peyote and both lead into articles 19 and 20, where article 20 states the ceiling in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», death: the mescaline it contains is a Schedule 5 psychotropic substance, and article 19(a)(1) reaches a plant producing psychotropic substances in its own terms. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. The plant limb also means that growing the cactus is addressed and not only carrying a piece of it.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for peyote in Jordan to describe, and no Jordanian ceremonial or religious exemption was located in the text read for this row. The placement that governs the cactus is the Schedule 5 entry for the mescaline in it, so the traveller rule below attaches to that entry rather than to the plant's name. Exemptions for indigenous ceremonial use exist in a small number of other countries and they describe those countries' arrangements; they are not a Jordanian authorisation and do not become one at the border. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes peyote lawful to carry into Jordan, and a ceremonial membership card or a foreign exemption letter is not one. A live cactus also meets agricultural and plant health inspection, and peyote is a protected species under international trade rules, so a second body of law reaches the same object for entirely different reasons. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 5 mescaline placement relied on here was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 5 mescaline entry applied to peyote as the plant containing the scheduled constituent «الجدول رقم (5): مسكالين في البيوت», together with article 19(a)(1), which reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances · article 2 supplies the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · the plant name alone is not treated as a schedule entry · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Phenibut

Legal status: Whether Phenibut is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ phenibut: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for Phenibut: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were Phenibut, β-phenyl-GABA and 4-amino-3-phenylbutyric acid. No exact entry was located, and the resemblance to the gabapentinoids does not supply a schedule designation: pregabalin is expressly at Schedule 2, but a shared family resemblance is not an entry, and gabapentin itself is unresolved on this same dossier. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. Phenibut is sold as a supplement in some markets and as a prescription medicine in others, and neither of those facts places it anywhere in the Jordanian schedules, which the search could not match it to, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open. Two branches follow. If phenibut is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available, and article 14(a) turns on intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind, which is a live question for a substance taken in gram quantities for its effect. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way: article 19(b) makes life imprisonment mandatory on «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة» once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 makes death mandatory on «يعاقب بالإعدام» where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess, and a traveller should read the harsher one.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for Phenibut, because the control status that would drive it is not established. The complication specific to this substance is that it arrives as a bulk powder or a capsule sold as a nutritional supplement rather than as a dispensed medicine, and a supplement carries no prescription to produce. Jordan's food, supplement, medicines and import regimes, none of which were audited for this table, are the more likely place for a control on it to sit. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for Phenibut, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Carry the prescription and the original packaging if the substance was dispensed to you, and do not rely on a supplement label as a document: an unbranded powder with no pharmacy provenance is the hardest thing to explain at a border and the easiest to send for testing. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for Phenibut after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · the gabapentinoid resemblance was considered and rejected as a basis for designation · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Pink cocaine is a market label and not a substance, so Law No. 23 of 2016 has no single entry to give it, and the determination Jordan requires is recorded as «pink-cocaine: يلزم تحديد كل مكوّن في العينة وفحصه في الجداول الملحقة.», identify and test each constituent in the sample against the attached schedules. That instruction is the finding on this row rather than a gap in it. The name is used for a variable mixture, commonly built on ketamine with MDMA, methamphetamine, caffeine or a synthetic cathinone alongside it, and the pink colouring is a dye. The Law's operative definitions are membership tests applied to substances: article 2 makes «المادة المخدرة» every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 and «المؤثرات العقلية» every such substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9. A label does not sit in any schedule, and a constituent does. The constituents most often found in material sold under this name are in fact expressly listed in Jordan, ketamine at Schedule 9, MDMA at Schedule 5 and methamphetamine at Schedule 6, which is why the label question is answered by analysis rather than by naming. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the list of constituents that could be caught changes by Gazette decision.
Consequences if caught: The consequence is assigned constituent by constituent and never from the label, and that is not a finding of safety. A constituent listed anywhere in Schedules 1 to 9 engages mandatory life imprisonment under article 19(b), on the wording «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», once a listed aggravator is proved, and mandatory death under article 20, on the wording «يعاقب بالإعدام», where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present. It does so at any quantity, because articles 19 and 20 contain no weight threshold. Where a constituent is on no schedule at all, the route for that constituent is article 14, which is non-capital. So a single tablet or a single bag sold under this name can sit on either side of that line, and the person carrying it cannot know which, because the composition varies between batches and the seller's description is not evidence of anything. A laboratory decides the case and the label decides nothing. That asymmetry is the whole risk of this row: the buyer has no way to establish the facts that determine the sentence, and the analyst has every way.
If prescribed / medical: No single prescribing answer can be given for pink cocaine, because the label covers more than one substance and there is no medicine sold under this name. Several compounds that turn up in material carrying the label are individually scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, and ketamine in particular is a genuine medicine in Jordan under Schedule 9, but a prescription for a licensed ketamine product says nothing about a powder bought under a street name. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions, and Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes material sold under this label lawful to carry, and none that identifies it. A prescription covers a named medicine in its dispensing packaging, and it does not reach an unlabelled powder whatever that powder contains. The only useful action is not a documentary one: the composition has to be established by analysis, and that cannot be done at a border by the traveller. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that answers a question about a named, licensed substance, in writing and in advance. The determination instruction quoted above was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, no single schedule entry for the pink cocaine label, the dossier requiring constituent-specific determination «pink-cocaine: يلزم تحديد كل مكوّن في العينة وفحصه في الجداول الملحقة.» · article 2 supplies the Schedules 1 to 4 and Schedules 5 to 9 membership tests, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions for a listed constituent, article 14 the route for an unlisted one and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Poppers

Legal status: Poppers is a product label and not a substance, so Law No. 23 of 2016 has no single entry to give it, and the determination Jordan requires is recorded as «poppers: يلزم تحديد كل مكوّن في العينة وفحصه في الجداول الملحقة.», identify and test each constituent in the sample against the attached schedules. The label covers a family of alkyl nitrites, and which one is in a given bottle is a manufacturing decision that the packaging often does not disclose. That matters more in Jordan than it did a year ago, because the family is no longer outside the schedules. The definition that now reaches a constituent here is the chemical precursor definition at article 2, «السلائف الكيميائية: كل مادة كيميائية يمكن أن ينتج منها أو تدخل في صناعة أو تساعد على إنتاج المواد المخدرة أو المؤثرات العقلية والمدرجة في الجدولين رقم (11) و(12) الملحقين بهذا القانون.», chemical precursors being chemicals capable of producing, entering into the manufacture of, or assisting the production of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, and listed in Schedules 11 and 12. Pentyl and amyl nitrite were added to Schedule 11 by a Council of Ministers decision gazetted in July 2026, and isopropyl nitrite is also a precursor entry, so a product containing one of those is reached through the precursor regime. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», which is the power under which that addition was made.
Consequences if caught: The consequence is assigned constituent by constituent and never from the label, and that is not a finding of safety. Where the constituent is a Schedule 11 chemical precursor, which is what amyl, pentyl and isopropyl nitrite now are, the route is article 17: temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of between ten thousand and thirty thousand Jordanian dinars for the specified acts done with intent to use the precursor in manufacturing or producing a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance, with no life penalty, no death penalty and no weight threshold, and with that manufacturing intent an element of the offence. Where a constituent is instead listed anywhere in Schedules 1 to 9, the structure is different in kind: article 19(b) makes life imprisonment mandatory on «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة» once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 makes death mandatory on «يعاقب بالإعدام» where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. Where a constituent is on no schedule at all, the route is article 14, which is non-capital. Three different regimes, decided by a chemical the bottle may not name.
If prescribed / medical: No single prescribing answer can be given for poppers, because the label covers more than one substance. Amyl nitrite has a narrow medical history as an inhaled vasodilator and in cyanide poisoning kits, and a licensed preparation of it is a medicine, but a bottle sold as a room odouriser is not a dispensed medicine and carries no prescription. The constituents that are now Schedule 11 precursors are controlled through article 17 rather than through a prescribing route in any event. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions, and Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes a bottle sold under this label lawful to carry, and the label itself identifies nothing: products are sold as room odourisers, leather cleaners or nail polish removers precisely so that the active chemical is not named. Carry the prescription and the dispensing packaging if a licensed nitrite preparation was dispensed to you, which is a different object entirely. The change of date is the practical point on this row: the Schedule 11 entry for amyl and pentyl nitrite was created in July 2026, so any position taken before then, including a retailer's assurance abroad, describes a status Jordan no longer has. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration can settle a specific case in writing before you fly. The determination instruction quoted above was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, no single schedule entry for the poppers label, the dossier requiring constituent-specific determination «poppers: يلزم تحديد كل مكوّن في العينة وفحصه في الجداول الملحقة.» · article 2 supplies the Schedules 11 and 12 precursor definition, article 17 the precursor penalty route, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions for a Schedules 1 to 9 constituent, article 14 the route for an unlisted one and article 37 the amendment power under which pentyl and amyl nitrite were added to Schedule 11 by a Council of Ministers decision gazetted in July 2026 · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025, which predates the nitrite entry · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Pregabalin is a narcotic drug under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description, which is worth saying plainly because pregabalin is not an opioid and nothing about its pharmacology suggests that classification. Article 2 provides «المادة المخدرة: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (1) و(2) و(3) و(4) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», a narcotic drug being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 attached to this Law, so the classification follows the listing and not the chemistry. Pregabalin is expressly listed at Schedule 2, printed «الجدول رقم (2): بريغابالين», and it separately appears in the Schedule 10 preparation provisions, so the exact product form can affect schedule treatment. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may amend any attached schedule by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Pregabalin's Schedule 2 listing makes it a narcotic drug for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold. The gap between expectation and status is the danger here: a patient who thinks of pregabalin as a nerve pain capsule is carrying a Schedule 2 narcotic drug in Jordanian terms.
If prescribed / medical: Pregabalin is a mainstream prescribed medicine for neuropathic pain, epilepsy and anxiety, and being a medicine does not lift the control. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. The Schedule 10 preparation provisions mean the exact product form can change how a particular product is treated, so the strength belongs on the paperwork. This is also the substance whose neighbour, gabapentin, this table could not resolve, so do not reason from one to the other in either direction: pregabalin's listing is express and gabapentin's status is open. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Bring a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the dose and the treatment period, and do not carry a long repeat supply on the assumption that a common medicine needs no explanation. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 2 placement and the Schedule 10 preparation rule were read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 2 entry for pregabalin «الجدول رقم (2): بريغابالين», with the Schedule 10 preparation rule, article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 narcotic drug definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Psilocybin is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Psilocybin is expressly listed at Schedule 5, printed «الجدول رقم (5): بسيلوسيبين», which provides a direct psychotropic basis for the molecule. That finding does not extend to every mushroom species by name alone: what the entry controls is the compound, so a fungus is reached because it contains psilocybin and not because of what it is called, and a species that does not contain it is a separate question. Amanita muscaria, which this table could not resolve, is an example of a mushroom that this entry does not answer for. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a species or a constituent by a Gazette decision.
Consequences if caught: Psilocybin's Schedule 5 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic, and article 19(a)(1) separately reaches a plant producing psychotropic substances. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold, so dried material, fresh material and a few grams of either sit in the same provisions. Spores and grow kits raise the cultivation limb rather than escaping the Law.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for psilocybin in Jordan to describe. It is controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 5 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and has no dispensed medical use there. Psilocybin-assisted therapy trials and compassionate access schemes exist in other jurisdictions and create no Jordanian permission, so a trial document or a foreign approval is not an authorisation here. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes psilocybin or psilocybin-containing material lawful to carry, and none that a traveller could produce for it. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet, so the regulator settles a question about a licensed substance, in writing and before travel. Dried mushroom material is inspected as a foodstuff as well as a possible drug, and a chocolate, a capsule or a tea bag is the same substance in a different wrapper. The Schedule 5 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 5 entry for psilocybin «الجدول رقم (5): بسيلوسيبين», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, article 19(a)(1) the plant limb, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Quetiapine

Legal status: Whether Quetiapine is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ quetiapine: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for Quetiapine: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were Quetiapine and 11-[4-[2-(2-hydroxyethoxy)ethyl]piperazinyl]dibenzo[b,f][1,4]thiazepine. No exact entry was recovered. The distinction worth holding on this row is that the Law's term «المؤثرات العقلية», psychotropic substances, is a schedule membership test and not a pharmacological description: an antipsychotic is a psychoactive medicine in ordinary speech and becomes a psychotropic substance for this Law only by appearing in Schedules 5 to 9. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. Being an antipsychotic is not itself a schedule placement, and no quetiapine entry was matched in the last searchable list, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open. Two branches follow. If quetiapine is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available, and its intent element would rarely be met by a patient taking a prescribed dose. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way: article 19(b) makes life imprisonment mandatory on «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة» once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 makes death mandatory on «يعاقب بالإعدام» where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess, and a traveller should read the harsher one.
If prescribed / medical: Quetiapine is a prescribed antipsychotic and this row's deferral is about its narcotics-law status, not its medical standing. No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for it, because the control status that would drive it is not established, and its ordinary medicinal regulation in Jordan is a separate question that this table did not audit. A medicine can be prescription-only, or restricted to a specialist, without appearing on a Law No. 23 schedule at all. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. A doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period is worth carrying for a psychiatric medicine taken over a long period, because a long course is the thing most likely to exceed what a single prescription visibly covers. No carriage rule can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016, because the control status could not be closed, and an absent instruction is not a permission. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration can settle a specific case in writing before you fly. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for Quetiapine after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Salvia divinorum

Legal status: Whether Salvia divinorum is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ salvia-divinorum: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for Salvia divinorum: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were Salvia divinorum, salvinorin A and salvinorin, checked against the plant and psychotropic entries. Neither the plant nor its active diterpene was found, and no plant-family clause was established that would reach a Salvia species by genus. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind, and article 19(a)(1) separately reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a plant or a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. Neither the species nor salvinorin A was recovered, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open and two branches follow. If the plant and its diterpene are genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added either to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way, and article 19(a)(1) is available besides, because it reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances as such, so a living plant or a dried leaf can be the offence with no extraction step at all. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess, and a traveller should read the harsher one.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for Salvia divinorum, because the control status that would drive it is not established, and there is no Jordanian medical route for the plant or its extract to describe. Live plants, cuttings and dried leaf meet agricultural and plant health controls on import, and standardised extracts meet food and supplement controls, none of which were audited for this table. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for Salvia divinorum, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry leaf, a cutting or an extract. A plant or a plant product crossing a border meets agricultural inspection before it meets a drug law, and a strength-labelled extract invites a laboratory reading that plain leaf does not. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for Salvia divinorum after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the plant and salvinorin A are genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19(a)(1), 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled either · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Whether Scopolamine is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ scopolamine: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for Scopolamine: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were Scopolamine, Hyoscine and scopolamine hydrobromide, and all three classes of schedule were checked, narcotic, psychotropic and precursor, which matters because this alkaloid is none of the three obvious things: it is an anticholinergic medicine, a plant alkaloid and a substance with a criminal reputation, and each of those could have put it in a different part of the apparatus. No exact entry was located anywhere. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. The narcotic, psychotropic and precursor schedules were all checked and none of them was matched, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open. Two branches follow. If scopolamine is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available, and its intent element, an effect on the mind deliberately caused, is one this particular alkaloid can meet in a way that an ordinary travel sickness patch never would. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way: article 19(b) makes life imprisonment mandatory on «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة» once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 makes death mandatory on «يعاقب بالإعدام» where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. There is also a route this cell does not answer for, because it is not a drug law question at all: administering the substance to another person is dealt with by the ordinary criminal law rather than by the narcotics schedules. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess, and a traveller should read the harsher one.
If prescribed / medical: Scopolamine is a genuine medicine, dispensed as a patch, a tablet or an injection for motion sickness, spasm and end of life care, and this row's deferral is about its narcotics-law status rather than its medical standing. No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for it, because the control status that would drive it is not established, and a medicine can be prescription-only or pharmacy-only in Jordan without appearing on a Law No. 23 schedule at all. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. A licensed patch or tablet in a pharmacy box is an easy thing to explain; loose powder or an unlabelled liquid is not, and that difference matters more for this alkaloid than for most, given what it is known for. No carriage rule can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016, because the control status could not be closed, and an absent instruction is not a permission. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration can settle a specific case in writing before you fly. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for Scopolamine after a substance-specific search across the narcotic, psychotropic and precursor schedules whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Synthetic cannabinoids is an open class of changing compounds rather than a substance, so Law No. 23 of 2016 has no single entry to give it, and the determination Jordan requires is recorded as «synthetic-cannabinoids: يلزم تحديد كل مكوّن في العينة وفحصه في الجداول الملحقة.», identify and test each constituent in the sample against the attached schedules. The class is open in a way the others are not: manufacturers replace one compound with a structurally adjacent one as each is listed, so the population of compounds sold under the name is different from one year to the next, and a schedule read in December is not a schedule that necessarily answers for a product bought in September. The definition that catches a listed member is the psychotropic definition at article 2, «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Jordan does list named members of the wider cannabinoid field expressly, including hexahydrocannabinol at Schedule 6 and tetrahydrocannabiphorol and the tetrahydrocannabinol isomers at Schedule 5. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», and it is that power, exercised by Gazette decision, that keeps the list moving against the market.
Consequences if caught: The consequence is assigned constituent by constituent and never from the class name, and that is not a finding of safety. A constituent listed anywhere in Schedules 1 to 9 engages mandatory life imprisonment under article 19(b), on the wording «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», once a listed aggravator is proved, and mandatory death under article 20, on the wording «يعاقب بالإعدام», where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present. It does so at any quantity, because articles 19 and 20 contain no weight threshold, and a sprayed herbal mixture weighing a few grams is reached exactly as a kilogram would be. Where a constituent is on no schedule at all, the route for that constituent is article 14, which is non-capital. The hazard particular to this class is that the two branches are separated by a compound the user cannot identify and did not choose: the same brand name, the same packet design and the same supplier can carry a listed compound one month and an unlisted analogue the next, and the sentence follows the molecule rather than the packet.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing answer can be given for synthetic cannabinoids, because the class covers an open set of compounds and none of them is a medicine dispensed in Jordan under that description. Individual cannabinoid compounds that Jordan does schedule are controlled substances rather than available preparations, and a prescription for a licensed cannabinoid medicine in another country does not describe anything in a packet of sprayed herbal material. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions, and Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes material sold under this class name lawful to carry, and none that identifies what is in it. A packet label naming a brand, a flavour or a weight says nothing about the compound, which is the only fact that decides the Jordanian answer, and the compound can only be established by analysis. Carry a prescription and its dispensing packaging for a licensed medicine, which is a different object. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that answers a question about a named, licensed substance, in writing and in advance. The determination instruction quoted above was read on 17 September 2026, against a schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 whose successor could not be retrieved, which on this class is a more serious limitation than on most.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, no single schedule entry for the synthetic cannabinoids class, the dossier requiring constituent-specific determination «synthetic-cannabinoids: يلزم تحديد كل مكوّن في العينة وفحصه في الجداول الملحقة.» · article 2 supplies the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions for a listed constituent, article 14 the route for an unlisted one and article 37 the amendment power · named cannabinoid entries read in the same schedules include hexahydrocannabinol at Schedule 6 and tetrahydrocannabiphorol and the tetrahydrocannabinol isomers at Schedule 5 · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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THC-P

Legal status: THC-P is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. THC-P is expressly listed at Schedule 5 as tetrahydrocannabiphorol, printed «الجدول رقم (5): تتراهيدروكانابيفورول», and the entry includes its delta-9-THCP synonym. That express listing is what matters: the seven-carbon side chain analogue is independently controlled here and its status is not being inferred from THC. Jordan has listed it by name, which is not something every jurisdiction has done, and the compound is a recent arrival in commerce. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», which is the power under which novel cannabinoids of this kind are added.
Consequences if caught: THC-P's Schedule 5 listing makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. THC-P is far more potent at the receptor than delta-9-THC, so products containing it are dosed in small amounts, and a cartridge or a gummy therefore weighs very little while being expressly scheduled.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescribing route for THC-P in Jordan to describe. It is expressly controlled as a psychotropic substance at Schedule 5 of Law No. 23 of 2016 and is not a dispensed medicine, and its open sale as a novel cannabinoid product in other markets is not a permission here. The structural point is that the trafficking offence at article 19(a) is defined by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, so that particular offence requires that intent to be proved. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing, dispensing or retail conditions; Jordan's separate medicines, food and supplement regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is no document that makes a THC-P product lawful to carry into Jordan, and a retail receipt or a hemp-derived marketing claim is not one. The compound is named in the schedule, so a certificate of analysis that identifies it settles the question against the carrier rather than for them. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Treat a vape cartridge, a gummy or an oil as what it contains rather than as what the packet calls it. The Schedule 5 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 5 entry for tetrahydrocannabiphorol «الجدول رقم (5): تتراهيدروكانابيفورول», including its delta-9-THCP synonym, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Tobacco

Legal status: Tobacco is outside the Law No. 23 of 2016 scheduling question altogether, and the schedule search that establishes that is recorded as «بحث الجداول عن التبغ: لا يوجد قيد مطابق في جداول المواد المخدرة أو المؤثرات العقلية.», a schedule search for tobacco returning no matching narcotic or psychotropic entry. The Law's definitions are membership tests rather than descriptions: article 2 makes «المادة المخدرة» every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4, and «المؤثرات العقلية» every such substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9, so a plant that appears on no schedule is not a narcotic drug for this Law. Tobacco appears on none of them, and article 19(a)(1), which reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, does not reach it either, because the substance the plant produces is itself unlisted. It is governed instead by the tobacco control provisions of Public Health Law No. 47 of 2008, which this schedule audit did not read. The only limb of Law No. 23 that could reach an unlisted substance at all is article 14(a), «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law, taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the death penalty nor life imprisonment reaches tobacco through Law No. 23 of 2016, because articles 19 and 20 operate on scheduled narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and chemical precursors, and tobacco is in none of those classes. The plant limb at article 19(a)(1) does not reach it either, since it is directed at plants producing scheduled substances. There is no drug quantity threshold, because a threshold is something a schedule entry carries and there is no entry. Article 14, the only limb capable of reaching an unlisted substance, is non-capital in any event. The Jordanian consequences that do attach to tobacco are public health and revenue consequences: restrictions on smoking in public places, on sale to minors and on advertising under Public Health Law No. 47 of 2008, and customs and excise treatment on import. Those were not audited for this table, and a quantity brought in beyond the personal allowance is a duty and smuggling question rather than a drug question, which is a different problem and not a smaller one.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from Law No. 23 of 2016 for tobacco, because the Law does not schedule it and there is no control here for a prescription to lift. Tobacco is not a medicine and there is no medical route to describe. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix supply or dispensing conditions, so the public health and revenue regimes that do govern it are treated here as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: No documentation is required for tobacco by the narcotics law, and no carriage allowance is granted by it either, because a carriage requirement under that statute is something a schedule entry creates and there is no entry. That is a narrow answer rather than a clearance. The rules a traveller actually meets are the customs duty-free allowance on cigarettes and other tobacco products, and the public health restrictions on where a product may be used once inside the country. Both sit in instruments this table did not read, and the allowance in particular changes without notice. The schedule search recorded above was run against the official consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, no narcotic or psychotropic schedule entry for tobacco after a search of the attached schedules, with article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 and Schedules 5 to 9 membership tests, article 19(a)(1) confined to plants producing scheduled substances, and article 14(a) the only limb capable of reaching an unlisted substance · the governing Jordanian regime is the tobacco control provisions of Public Health Law No. 47 of 2008, which were not audited for this row · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Tramadol

Legal status: Tramadol is a narcotic drug under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المادة المخدرة: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (1) و(2) و(3) و(4) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», a narcotic drug being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 1 to 4 attached to this Law. Tramadol is expressly scheduled at Schedule 2, printed «الجدول رقم (2): ترامادول», and Schedule 10 carries a printed preparation threshold for it at not more than 100 milligrams per unit, which makes the finished dosage form directly relevant to classification. A 50 milligram capsule and a 200 milligram modified-release tablet are not the same object for this purpose. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», and the express power to change the stated percentages, «تعديل النسب», is what could move that 100 milligram figure.
Consequences if caught: Tramadol is scheduled, so it sits inside articles 19 and 20 and article 20 states the ceiling in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, and the drug's reputation as a mild opioid is not what decides the exposure. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure, since neither article states a weight threshold. The 100 milligram per unit figure is a schedule-treatment line for preparations and not a possession threshold, and treating it as one would be a serious mistake.
If prescribed / medical: Tramadol is very widely prescribed and it is also one of the most heavily diverted medicines in this region, which is why a country can control it tightly while doctors prescribe it daily. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. Schedule 10's printed limit of not more than 100 milligrams per unit means the strength of the product a patient carries can change how that product is treated, so the strength belongs on the paperwork alongside the name. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, state the strength per unit as well as the drug name, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. A doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the dose and the treatment period is worth having on this row specifically, because the Schedule 10 threshold is expressed per unit. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 2 placement and the Schedule 10 threshold were read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 2 entry for tramadol «الجدول رقم (2): ترامادول», with the Schedule 10 preparation rule at not more than 100 mg per unit, article 2 supplying the Schedules 1 to 4 narcotic drug definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power including the power to change the stated percentages · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Alprazolam is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Alprazolam is expressly listed at Schedule 9, printed «الجدول رقم (9): ألبرازولام», and qualifying preparations at the printed low-dose limit are separately addressed in Schedule 10, so the strength of the finished product can change how that product is treated. The listing is individual, which means the result holds without any need to treat the benzodiazepines as a single class, and the class row of this table reaches the same place by naming each member. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», the power to change the stated percentages being what could move that Schedule 10 line.
Consequences if caught: Alprazolam's Schedule 9 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», however routine a prescription for it is elsewhere. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. Alprazolam is also the benzodiazepine most heavily counterfeited, so a tablet bought outside a pharmacy may contain something else entirely, and several of the candidates are themselves scheduled.
If prescribed / medical: Alprazolam is a very widely prescribed anxiolytic and being a medicine does not lift the control. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. Schedule 10's low-dose preparation rule means the printed strength of a particular product can change its treatment, so the strength belongs on the paperwork beside the name. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Do not move tablets into a pill organiser for the flight, because an unlabelled tablet of a Schedule 9 substance is the hardest thing in a bag to account for. Bring a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the dose and the treatment period, and get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 9 placement and the Schedule 10 preparation rule were read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 9 entry for alprazolam «الجدول رقم (9): ألبرازولام», with the Schedule 10 low-dose preparation rule, article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power including the power to change the stated percentages · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Xylazine

Legal status: Whether Xylazine is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ xylazine: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for Xylazine: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were Xylazine and 2-(2,6-dimethylphenylamino)-4H-5,6-dihydro-1,3-thiazine. No exact veterinary sedative entry was found. The temptation this row refuses is the association with fentanyl: xylazine appears in illicit opioid mixtures and fentanyl is expressly in Schedule 1, but appearing together in a sample is not a shared schedule entry, and the two are unrelated chemically. Xylazine is not an opioid at all. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: not established. Xylazine's own placement could not be closed, but the practical exposure on this row rarely turns on xylazine alone, and that is the point to carry away. A sample that contains xylazine because it was cut into an opioid also contains that opioid, and heroin and fentanyl are both expressly in Schedule 1, so the scheduled component decides the case and the unscheduled one adds nothing to the defence. Taking xylazine by itself, the two branches are these. If it is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way: article 19(b) makes life imprisonment mandatory on «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة» once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 makes death mandatory on «يعاقب بالإعدام» where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess, and a traveller should read the harsher one.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for Xylazine, because the control status that would drive it is not established, and there is no human medical route to describe in any case: xylazine is a veterinary sedative, not a human medicine. The Jordanian controls most likely to reach it are the veterinary medicines and animal drug supply rules rather than the narcotics schedules, and those were not audited for this table. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation: No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for Xylazine, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. There is no ordinary reason for a traveller to carry it, and a veterinary professional moving it across a border should be carrying the veterinary licence and consignment paperwork rather than looking to the narcotics law for a permission. Do not read the missing instruction as permission. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for Xylazine after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · the association with fentanyl was considered and rejected as a basis for designation, fentanyl being separately at Schedule 1 · article 14(a) is the fallback route if xylazine is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Zolpidem is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Zolpidem is expressly listed at Schedule 9, printed «الجدول رقم (9): زولبيديم», which resolves the molecule separately from the benzodiazepines and from the other hypnotic classes. It is an imidazopyridine rather than a benzodiazepine, so it is not covered by that class row of this table and does not need to be: it has its own entry. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may amend any attached schedule by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught: Zolpidem's Schedule 9 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام», however ordinary a sleeping tablet seems. Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. Zolpidem is the medicine most often carried for long flights and time zone changes, frequently as a loose tablet given by somebody else, and that is exactly how a traveller ends up holding a Schedule 9 substance with nothing to show for it.
If prescribed / medical: Zolpidem is a mainstream prescribed hypnotic for short-term insomnia, and being a medicine does not lift the Schedule 9 control. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. The distinction that matters is between a supply dispensed to you and one dispensed to somebody else: passing a tablet to a travelling companion who cannot sleep is a supply act on its face, whatever was intended by it. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. Keep the tablets in the labelled pack rather than loose in a wash bag, and do not carry tablets dispensed to another person. Bring a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 9 placement was read on 17 September 2026.

Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 9 entry for zolpidem «الجدول رقم (9): زولبيديم», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026

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