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Legality · Khat

Khat in Belize: not individually verified

Also known as: qat, miraa, quaadka

Not individually verified

We have not confirmed that Khat specifically is scheduled in Belize, so this page gives no legal status. Publishing a guess here would be worse than publishing nothing. What we do know is the governing national drug law, below.

What is on record
Not confirmed. Khat, qat and Catha edulis returned nothing in either file; Cathinone returned one occurrence and Cathine one. The nearest printed entries are Cathinone in Schedule I paragraph 1(a) and Cathine in Schedule III paragraph 1(a), the two alkaloids the leaf carries. Both alkaloids are named and the plant is not. The volume has no rule that a plant containing a listed substance is itself controlled, so whether fresh leaf falls inside the schedules is not settled by the Regulations, and the Act's Second Schedule, which is where a plant entry would normally sit, was not read. This row is a plant with two separately scheduled alkaloids sitting in two different schedules, which is unusual and is why it is not answered from either one. Nothing in this cell rests on an absence being the whole answer: the Misuse of Drugs Regulations are subsidiary law, and the list that decides whether a substance is a controlled drug at all is the Act's own Second Schedule, which section 4 divides into Parts I, II and III for Class A, Class B and Class C. That schedule is in the Substantive Laws volume of Chapter 103 and was not among the four instruments in the subsidiary volume read, so this row is left open rather than answered. The search recorded above covers the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, the Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations and the Industrial Hemp Regulations as the Revised Edition 2020 volume prints them, showing the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020, together with the 1990 Act text. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.

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What Belize HAS confirmed for related substances

These are related compounds, not Khat. Their status may or may not reflect Khat’s. Confirm Khat directly with Belize's national drug authority or your embassy.

  • Cathinonea related compound, not Khat

    Cathinone is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule I paragraph 1(a), in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. The volume prints it on one line with a second entry, as Cathinone Cocoa leaf, with the line break between the two entries lost. That is how the page is set, checked against the rendered page image and not only against the text layer. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. A second cathinone sits lower down. Cathine is printed in Schedule III paragraph 1(a), which carries a lighter set of regulation duties than Schedule I. Two related alkaloids, two different schedules, and the row for each is different. No class is given here. Class follows from Part I, Part II or Part III of the Act's Second Schedule under section 4, and the subsidiary volume read for this row prints no part of that schedule and uses the words Class A, Class B and Class C nowhere at all. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.

    Belize, Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule I paragraph 1(a), in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · the Act's offence and penalty provisions were read in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text stops partway through section 28 and carries none of its own three schedules, so no class and no ordinary possession maximum is taken from it · read as at 22 September 2026 · Verified September 21, 2026

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