Khat in Dominica: not individually verified

Also known as: qat, miraa, quaadka

We have not confirmed that Khat specifically is scheduled in Dominica, 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. No entry for Khat was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07, on a reading of the three complete printed lists as page images at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages. No plant of the genus Catha is printed in Parts I to III, and the Schedule's plant coverage is closed by Part IV, which defines only cannabinol derivatives, coca leaf, concentrate of poppy-straw and the opium group. The leaf's active constituents are cathinone and cathine and neither is printed either, so both the plant route and the constituent route are empty, which is what separates this row from peyote and ayahuasca. The absence is bounded by that revision and by nothing further: section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, Orders of that kind are published separately, and this consolidation reproduces none made after the note its Schedule pages carry. So about thirty five years of possible additions sit outside what was read, and that gap is why this row is left open here rather than published as a finding that the substance is uncontrolled in Dominica.

Confirm directly with Dominica’s national drug authority or your own embassy before you rely on anything.

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