Legal status in Macau

1P-LSD

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. 1P-LSD is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for 1P-LSD, 1-propionyl and 1-丙酰 found no entry. Table II-A item 16 prints «(+)-Lisergida, LSD, LSD-25», and Table II-A's closing notes reach only «Os sais das substâncias inscritas» and isomers; 1P-LSD, the 1-propionyl derivative of LSD (a structure brought from outside the text), is neither a salt nor an isomer of LSD, and the term propionyl occurs only inside opioid chemical names in Table I-A. That is not a statement that 1P-LSD is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because 1P-LSD is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for 1P-LSD, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether 1P-LSD is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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2-FDCK

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-C, item 14, prints «2-氟脫氯氯胺酮 / 2-Fluorodeschloroketamine». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for 2-FDCK, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for 2-FDCK.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for 2-FDCK, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: 2-氟-去氯愷他命; 2-Fluorodeschloroketamine; 2-FDCK. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-C, item 14: 2-氟脫氯氯胺酮 / 2-Fluorodeschloroketamine.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-C, item 14, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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25I-NBOMe

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 40, prints «25I-NBOMe / 25I-NBOMe». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for 25I-NBOMe, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for 25I-NBOMe.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for 25I-NBOMe, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: 25I-NBOMe; 2C-I-NBOMe; 25I-N-(2-甲氧基苄基)-2C-I. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-A, item 40: 25I-NBOMe / 25I-NBOMe.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-A, item 40, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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2C-B

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 1, prints «2,5-二甲氧基-4-溴苯己胺 / 2C-B». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for 2C-B, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for 2C-B.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for 2C-B, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: 4-溴-2,5-二甲氧基苯基乙基胺; 4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine; 2C-B. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-A, item 1: 2,5-二甲氧基-4-溴苯己胺 / 2C-B.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-A, item 1, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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2C-T-7

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 2, prints «2,5-二甲氧基-4-丙硫基苯乙胺 / 2C-T-7». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for 2C-T-7, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for 2C-T-7.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for 2C-T-7, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: 2C-T-7; 4-丙基硫基-2,5-二甲氧基苯乙胺; 4-propylthio-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-A, item 2: 2,5-二甲氧基-4-丙硫基苯乙胺 / 2C-T-7.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-A, item 2, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. 4-AcO-DMT is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for 4-AcO, 4-acetoxy, psilacetin, O-acetylpsilocin and 4-乙酰氧基 found no entry. Table II-A prints «Psilocibina» at item 29 and «Psilocina, Psilotsin» at item 30, and 4-AcO-DMT is the acetate ester of psilocin, a structure brought from outside the text. Table II-A's closing notes reach salts and isomers only, whereas Table I-A's reach «Os ésteres e os éteres das substâncias inscritas», so no note in Table II-A carries an ester of psilocin. That is not a statement that 4-AcO-DMT is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because 4-AcO-DMT is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for 4-AcO-DMT, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether 4-AcO-DMT is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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4-HO-MET

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. 4-HO-MET is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for 4-HO-MET, metocin, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyl, ethyl(methyl)amino and 4-羥基-N-甲基-N-乙基色胺 found no entry. The nearest Table II-A rows are «Psilocina, Psilotsin» (4-HO-DMT), «DET» and «DMT», all different molecules, and Table II-A's closing notes reach salts and isomers only. That is not a statement that 4-HO-MET is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because 4-HO-MET is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for 4-HO-MET, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether 4-HO-MET is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. 5-MeO-DMT is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for 5-MeO, 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine and 5-甲氧基-N,N-二甲基色胺 found no entry. Table II-A prints «DMT» at item 8 and «Bufotenina», 5-hydroxy-DMT, at item 3; 5-methoxy occurs only inside the chemical name of «MMDA», an amphetamine. 5-MeO-DMT is not a salt or isomer of DMT. That is not a statement that 5-MeO-DMT is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because 5-MeO-DMT is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for 5-MeO-DMT, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether 5-MeO-DMT is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. 7-hydroxymitragynine is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for hydroxymitrag, hidroximitrag, 7-OH and 7-羥基帽柱木鹼 found no entry. Neither the parent alkaloid mitragynine nor the plant Mitragyna speciosa is named, so no salt, isomer or derivative note in any table has a listed parent to attach it to. That is not a statement that 7-hydroxymitragynine is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because 7-hydroxymitragynine is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for 7-hydroxymitragynine, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether 7-hydroxymitragynine is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Controlled in Macau through its active constituent. Adderall is a brand product made of amphetamine salts, and the dossier assesses it through amphetamine, which Law 17/2009 Table II-B, item 2, prints as «苯丙胺 / Anfetamina». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table gives 0.2 g amphetamine, and five times that is 1 g amphetamine. Article 14(2) redirects quantities above fivefold for assessment under Articles 7, 8 or 11. Article 11(2) also asks whether the quantity does not exceed five times the daily reference when assessing substantially reduced unlawfulness; the dossier says that is not a possession allowance. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for Adderall.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for Adderall, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: mixed amphetamine salts; amphetamine. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: II-B item 2 amphetamine.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-B, item 2, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Amanita muscaria

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Amanita muscaria is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for amanita, muscimol, ibotén, ibotenic and 毒蠅 found no entry. No fungus is named in any table; the psilocybin mushroom alkaloids are listed only as the molecules «Psilocibina» and «Psilocina». That is not a statement that Amanita muscaria is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because Amanita muscaria is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for Amanita muscaria, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether Amanita muscaria is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-B, item 2, prints «苯丙胺 / Anfetamina». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table gives 0.2 g, and five times that is 1 g. Article 14(2) redirects quantities above fivefold for assessment under Articles 7, 8 or 11. Article 11(2) also asks whether the quantity does not exceed five times the daily reference when assessing substantially reduced unlawfulness; the dossier says that is not a possession allowance. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for amphetamine.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for amphetamine, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: amphetamine; amphetamine salts. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-B, item 2: 苯丙胺 / Anfetamina.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-B, item 2, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Amyl nitrite is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for nitrit, amyl, amilo and 亞硝酸 found no entry. The word isopentyl occurs only inside the chemical name of Table II-C's «Amobarbital», 5-ethyl-5-isopentylbarbituric acid, which is not a nitrite. That is not a statement that amyl nitrite is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because amyl nitrite is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for amyl nitrite, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether amyl nitrite is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before. Medicines and consumer product law on nitrite liquids was not read.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Controlled in Macau through its DMT content. The brew is not itself a named item; the dossier assesses it through its identified DMT content, which Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 8, prints as «二甲基色胺 / DMT». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for ayahuasca, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for ayahuasca.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for ayahuasca, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: ayahuasca; DMT-containing preparation. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: II-A item 8 DMT.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-A, item 8, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled in Macau, member by member. Benzodiazepines is a class, not one compound, and Law 17/2009 lists its members one by one, so the class has no single entry. Each of the six members checked in the dossier's own rows is a Table IV entry: diazepam at item 19, printed «地西泮 / Diazepam»; alprazolam at item 2, printed «阿普唑侖 / Alprazolam»; clonazepam at item 13, printed «氯硝西泮 / Clonazepam»; lorazepam at item 35, printed «勞拉西泮 / Lorazepam»; nimetazepam at item 45, printed «尼美西泮 / Nimetazepam»; and etizolam at item 64, printed «依替唑侖 / Etizolam». The dossier's class row also names Table II-C for the family but quotes no benzodiazepine entry in it. That Table II-C reference is not printed in the quoted extract of this row; it is the dossier's explanation. A benzodiazepine not named here needs its own table match before any band applies to it. The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking for the six named members: Article 8(3). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking, across the six named members, all in Table IV: Article 8(3) sets 1 to 5 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking and 2 to 8 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. The dossier's class row also states a band of 5 to 15 years under Article 8(1) for Table II-C; it names no benzodiazepine in Table II-C, so that higher band is stated only as what the class row records, and it would reach a member only if that member's own entry is in Table II-C. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the dossier gives no family wide daily quantity, and the daily reference table prints no figure for any of the six named members, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to them; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for any benzodiazepine.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for any benzodiazepine, and none is given here. The dossier rows for this class and its six members carry no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for the class row: Query: benzodiazepine class; named members. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: IV named benzodiazepines, including items 2, 13, 19 and 35.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table IV, items 2, 13, 19, 35, 45 and 64, and Articles 8(1), 8(3), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-C, item 2, prints «丁丙諾啡 / Buprenorfina». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for buprenorphine, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for buprenorphine.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for buprenorphine, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: buprenorphine and salts. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-C, item 2: 丁丙諾啡 / Buprenorfina.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-C, item 2, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Caffeine

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Caffeine is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for caffeine and 咖啡因 found no entry. The word «cafeína» occurs once, in note 3(6) to the daily reference map, which says MDMA «pode aparecer misturada com impurezas (por exemplo, MDA, cafeína)»; that note describes street samples and lists nothing. That is not a statement that caffeine is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because caffeine is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for caffeine, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether caffeine is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table I-C, item 1, prints «大麻 - Cannabis sativa L.植物的葉，或其開花或結果的頂部，但並未從中提取出不論被冠以何種名稱的樹脂者 / Canabis - folhas ou sumidades floridas ou frutificadas da planta Cannabis sativa L. da qual não se tenha extraído a resina, qualquer que seja a denominação que se lhe dê». The quoted entry is the plant material from which the resin has not been extracted; the dossier row quotes no separate resin or oil entry, though it gives daily reference figures for resin and oil. The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table gives 1 g plant, 0.5 g resin, or 0.25 g oil, and five times that is 5 g plant, 2.5 g resin, or 1.25 g oil. Article 14(2) redirects quantities above fivefold for assessment under Articles 7, 8 or 11. Article 11(2) also asks whether the quantity does not exceed five times the daily reference when assessing substantially reduced unlawfulness; the dossier says that is not a possession allowance. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass. The previous cell also stated that Macau has no legal recreational or medical cannabis regime. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for cannabis.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for cannabis, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: cannabis; marijuana; cannabis resin. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table I-C, item 1: 大麻 - Cannabis sativa L.植物的葉，或其開花或結果的頂部，但並未從中提取出不論被冠以何種名稱的樹脂者 / Canabis - folhas ou sumidades floridas ou frutificadas da planta Cannabis sativa L. da qual não se tenha extraído a resina, qualquer que seja a denominação que se lhe dê.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table I-C, item 1, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 4, prints «卡西酮 / Catinona». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for cathinone, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for cathinone.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for cathinone, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: cathinone. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-A, item 4: 卡西酮 / Catinona.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-A, item 4, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table IV, item 13, prints «氯硝西泮 / Clonazepam». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(3). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(3) sets 1 to 5 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a Table IV substance and 2 to 8 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for clonazepam, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for clonazepam.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for clonazepam, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: clonazepam. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table IV, item 13: 氯硝西泮 / Clonazepam.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table IV, item 13, and Articles 8(3), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table I-B, item 2, prints «可卡因 / Cocaína». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table gives 0.03 g cocaine base or 0.2 g cocaine hydrochloride, and five times that is 0.15 g base or 1 g hydrochloride. Article 14(2) redirects quantities above fivefold for assessment under Articles 7, 8 or 11. Article 11(2) also asks whether the quantity does not exceed five times the daily reference when assessing substantially reduced unlawfulness; the dossier says that is not a possession allowance. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for cocaine.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for cocaine, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: cocaine; coca alkaloid. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table I-B, item 2: 可卡因 / Cocaína.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table I-B, item 2, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table I-A, item 26, prints «可待因 / Codeína». The dossier adds that specified low content combination preparations of codeine can fall within Table III item 1, so a product needs a formulation specific check. That Table III placement is not printed in the quoted extract of this row; it is the dossier's explanation. The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for codeine, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for codeine. It does note that qualifying dilute combined codeine preparations can enter Table III item 1, which describes limited preparations of specified Table I substances.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for codeine, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: codeine. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: I-A item 26; III item 1 only for qualifying preparations.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table I-A, item 26, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled in Macau as cocaine. Crack is a cocaine base preparation and is not a separate name in the tables; its cocaine constituent follows Law 17/2009 Table I-B, item 2, printed as «可卡因 / Cocaína». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table gives 0.03 g cocaine base, and five times that is 0.15 g cocaine base. Article 14(2) redirects quantities above fivefold for assessment under Articles 7, 8 or 11. Article 11(2) also asks whether the quantity does not exceed five times the daily reference when assessing substantially reduced unlawfulness; the dossier says that is not a possession allowance. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for crack cocaine.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for crack cocaine, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: crack cocaine; cocaine base. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: I-B item 2 cocaine.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table I-B, item 2, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-B, item 16, prints «delta-8-THC / (6aR,10aR)-6a,7,10,10a-tetrahydro-6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pyran-1-ol». The dossier's quotation labels the entry by name and its search log numbers it item 16, the list of THC isomers; the dossier warns against equating it with all cannabinoids. The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for delta-8-THC, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for delta-8-THC.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for delta-8-THC, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: II-B item 16 explicit isomer.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-B, item 16, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Diazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table IV, item 19, prints «地西泮 / Diazepam». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(3). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(3) sets 1 to 5 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a Table IV substance and 2 to 8 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for diazepam, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for diazepam.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for diazepam, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: diazepam. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table IV, item 19: 地西泮 / Diazepam.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table IV, item 19, and Articles 8(3), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 8, prints «二甲基色胺 / DMT». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for DMT, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for DMT.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for DMT, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: N,N-dimethyltryptamine. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-A, item 8: 二甲基色胺 / DMT.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-A, item 8, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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DOM

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 11, prints «二甲氧基甲苯異丙胺 / STP, DOM». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for DOM, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for DOM.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for DOM, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: DOM; 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-A, item 11: 二甲氧基甲苯異丙胺 / STP, DOM.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-A, item 11, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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DXM

Legal status: Not listed in Macau, and excluded by name. DXM, dextromethorphan, is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026 except as an express exclusion. Searches of the Portuguese and English columns for dextromethorphan and DXM found no entry. Table I-A excludes it by name: «O dextrometorfano e o dextrorfano estão especificamente excluídos da presente tabela», in Chinese «右美沙芬及右啡烷均明確不列入本附表內», attached to «Levometorfano» and «Levorfanol», and no other table names it. That is not a statement that DXM is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because DXM is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for DXM, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether DXM is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Controlled in Macau as a precursor. Law 17/2009 Table V, item 3, prints «麻黃鹼 / Efedrina». Table V lists precursors, which are governed by Article 9 and its knowledge and purpose elements rather than by the personal use offence. The dossier searched pseudoephedrine alongside ephedrine but quotes only the ephedrine entry. The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Supply and possession with knowledge of illicit manufacture: Article 9.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Article 9(1) sets 2 to 10 years of imprisonment for knowingly supplying the precursor without authorization, and Article 9(2) sets 1 to 8 years for knowingly possessing it, in each case where the person knows it is or will be used for illicit production. Article 10 can raise both bounds by one third. Article 14, the personal use offence, reaches Tables I to IV only. Quantity: there is no Article 14 personal use amount for a Table V precursor. The dossier states the Article 9 supply and possession bands for precursors; it does not set out separate bands for import, export or manufacture of a precursor, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for ephedrine.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for ephedrine, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: 麻黃鹼; ephedrine; 偽麻黃鹼; pseudoephedrine. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: V item 3.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table V, item 3, and Articles 2(2), 5(2), 9 and 10, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Etizolam

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table IV, item 64, prints «依替唑侖 / Etizolam». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(3). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(3) sets 1 to 5 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a Table IV substance and 2 to 8 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for etizolam, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for etizolam.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for etizolam, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: etizolam. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table IV, item 64: 依替唑侖 / Etizolam.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table IV, item 64, and Articles 8(3), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table I-A, item 55, prints «芬太尼 / Fentanil». This row quotes the entry for fentanyl itself and no entry for any fentanyl analogue. The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for fentanyl, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for fentanyl.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for fentanyl, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: fentanyl; fentanyl analogues. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table I-A, item 55: 芬太尼 / Fentanil.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table I-A, item 55, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Gabapentin

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Gabapentin is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for gabapentin and 加巴噴丁 found no entry. No gabapentinoid appears in Table IV, whose newest rows are «Bromazolam» from Law 2/2025 and «Carisoprodol» from Law 12/2026, nor in Table II-C. That is not a statement that gabapentin is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because gabapentin is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for gabapentin, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether gabapentin is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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GBL

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. GBL is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for butirolactona, butyrolactone, GBL and 丁內酯 found no entry. Table II-C item 5 prints «Ácido gama-hidroxibutírico, GHB», and its closing note reaches only «Os sais das substâncias inscritas»; GBL is a lactone, not a salt of GHB, and Tables V and VI do not list it as a precursor. That is not a statement that GBL is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because GBL is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for GBL, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether GBL is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-C, item 5, prints «γ-羥基丁酸，γ-羥丁酸 / Ácido gama-hidroxibutírico, GHB». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for GHB, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for GHB.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for GHB, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: gamma-hydroxybutyrate; GHB. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-C, item 5: γ-羥基丁酸，γ-羥丁酸 / Ácido gama-hidroxibutírico, GHB.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-C, item 5, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table I-A, item 58, prints «海洛因 / Heroína». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table gives 0.25 g, and five times that is 1.25 g. Article 14(2) redirects quantities above fivefold for assessment under Articles 7, 8 or 11. Article 11(2) also asks whether the quantity does not exceed five times the daily reference when assessing substantially reduced unlawfulness; the dossier says that is not a possession allowance. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for heroin.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for heroin, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: heroin; diacetylmorphine. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table I-A, item 58: 海洛因 / Heroína.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table I-A, item 58, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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HHC

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-B, item 43, prints «六氫大麻酚 / Hexahydrocannabinol, HHC». The dossier records that Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026, added hexahydrocannabinol by chemical structure, and that parahexyl, listed earlier in the II-A table, is a different molecule. The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for HHC, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for HHC.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for HHC, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: 六氫大麻酚; hexahydrocannabinol; HHC. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: II-B item 43 as added by Law 12/2026.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-B, item 43, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table I-A, item 59, prints «氫可酮 / Hidrocodona». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for hydrocodone, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for hydrocodone.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for hydrocodone, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: hydrocodone. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table I-A, item 59: 氫可酮 / Hidrocodona.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table I-A, item 59, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Ketamine

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-C, item 7, prints «氯胺酮 / Ketamina». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table gives 0.6 g, and five times that is 3 g. Article 14(2) redirects quantities above fivefold for assessment under Articles 7, 8 or 11. Article 11(2) also asks whether the quantity does not exceed five times the daily reference when assessing substantially reduced unlawfulness; the dossier says that is not a possession allowance. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for ketamine.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for ketamine, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: ketamine. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-C, item 7: 氯胺酮 / Ketamina.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-C, item 7, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Kratom

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Kratom is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for kratom, Mitragyna, mitragyn and 帽柱木 found no entry. The only plants Tables I and II name are the opium poppy and its products, coca leaf, cannabis and, at Table II-A item 36, «Salvia divinorum»; Mitragyna speciosa is not among them, and neither is its alkaloid mitragynine. That is not a statement that kratom is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because kratom is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for kratom, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether kratom is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before. Plant and alkaloid were searched separately because a leaf can be reached through its alkaloid; here neither is listed, so no family split arises.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table IV, item 35, prints «勞拉西泮 / Lorazepam». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(3). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(3) sets 1 to 5 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a Table IV substance and 2 to 8 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for lorazepam, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for lorazepam.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for lorazepam, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: lorazepam. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table IV, item 35: 勞拉西泮 / Lorazepam.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table IV, item 35, and Articles 8(3), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. LSA is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for ergine, lysergamide, lisergamida and 麥角酰胺 found no entry. Table V prints «Ácido lisérgico», «Ergometrina» and «Ergotamina» as precursors, which Article 9 reaches only where a person deals in or holds them knowing they are or will be used for illicit manufacture; Table II-A item 16 is LSD, a different compound. That is not a statement that LSA is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because LSA is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for LSA, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether LSA is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 16, prints «麥角二乙胺，致幻劑，致幻劑-25 / Lisergida, LSD, LSD-25». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table gives 0.0002 g, and five times that is 0.001 g. Article 14(2) redirects quantities above fivefold for assessment under Articles 7, 8 or 11. Article 11(2) also asks whether the quantity does not exceed five times the daily reference when assessing substantially reduced unlawfulness; the dossier says that is not a possession allowance. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for LSD.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for LSD, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: lysergic acid diethylamide; LSD. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-A, item 16: 麥角二乙胺，致幻劑，致幻劑-25 / Lisergida, LSD, LSD-25.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-A, item 16, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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MDA

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 17, prints «替苯丙胺 / Tenanfetamina, MDA». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for MDA, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for MDA.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for MDA, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-A, item 17: 替苯丙胺 / Tenanfetamina, MDA.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-A, item 17, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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MDMA

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 18, prints «亞甲二氧基甲基苯丙胺 / MDMA». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table gives 0.15 g, and five times that is 0.75 g. Article 14(2) redirects quantities above fivefold for assessment under Articles 7, 8 or 11. Article 11(2) also asks whether the quantity does not exceed five times the daily reference when assessing substantially reduced unlawfulness; the dossier says that is not a possession allowance. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for MDMA.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for MDMA, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-A, item 18: 亞甲二氧基甲基苯丙胺 / MDMA.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-A, item 18, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Memantine

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Memantine is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for memantin and 美金剛 found no entry. No adamantane amine is named; the nearest dissociative rows are Table II-A's «Fenciclidina, PCP», «3-Methoxyphencyclidine» and «Diphenidine» and Table II-C's «Ketamina», all different compounds. That is not a statement that memantine is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because memantine is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for memantine, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether memantine is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 20, prints «麥司卡林 / Mescalina». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for mescaline, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for mescaline.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for mescaline, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: mescaline. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-A, item 20: 麥司卡林 / Mescalina.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-A, item 20, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table I-A, item 68, prints «美沙酮 / Metadona». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table gives 0.1 g, and five times that is 0.5 g. Article 14(2) redirects quantities above fivefold for assessment under Articles 7, 8 or 11. Article 11(2) also asks whether the quantity does not exceed five times the daily reference when assessing substantially reduced unlawfulness; the dossier says that is not a possession allowance. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for methadone.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for methadone, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: methadone. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table I-A, item 68: 美沙酮 / Metadona.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table I-A, item 68, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-B, item 12, prints «甲基苯丙胺 / Metanfetamina». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table gives 0.2 g, and five times that is 1 g. Article 14(2) redirects quantities above fivefold for assessment under Articles 7, 8 or 11. Article 11(2) also asks whether the quantity does not exceed five times the daily reference when assessing substantially reduced unlawfulness; the dossier says that is not a possession allowance. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for methamphetamine.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for methamphetamine, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: methamphetamine; METH. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-B, item 12: 甲基苯丙胺 / Metanfetamina.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-B, item 12, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-C, item 9, prints «甲喹酮 / Metaqualona». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for methaqualone, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for methaqualone.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for methaqualone, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: methaqualone. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-C, item 9: 甲喹酮 / Metaqualona.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-C, item 9, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-B, item 14, prints «哌醋甲酯 / Metilfenidato». Ritalin is a brand of methylphenidate, which is the entry quoted. The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for methylphenidate, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for methylphenidate.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for methylphenidate, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: methylphenidate; Ritalin. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-B, item 14: 哌醋甲酯 / Metilfenidato.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-B, item 14, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Mitragynine

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Mitragynine is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for mitragyn, mitragin and 帽柱木鹼 found no entry. The nearest indole alkaloid rows are tryptamines such as «DMT» and «Bufotenina» in Table II-A, which are different compounds, and the source plant Mitragyna speciosa is not named either. That is not a statement that mitragynine is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because mitragynine is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for mitragynine, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether mitragynine is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Modafinil

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Modafinil is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for modafinil, 莫達非尼 and armodafinil found no entry. The nearest stimulant rows are Table IV's «Mesocarbe», «Pemolina» and «Pipradol» and Table II-B's «Metilfenidato», all different compounds. That is not a statement that modafinil is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because modafinil is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for modafinil, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether modafinil is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Morphine

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table I-A, item 79, prints «嗎啡 / Morfina». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table gives 0.2 g, and five times that is 1 g. Article 14(2) redirects quantities above fivefold for assessment under Articles 7, 8 or 11. Article 11(2) also asks whether the quantity does not exceed five times the daily reference when assessing substantially reduced unlawfulness; the dossier says that is not a possession allowance. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for morphine.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for morphine, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: morphine. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table I-A, item 79: 嗎啡 / Morfina.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table I-A, item 79, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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MXE

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-C, item 13, prints «Methoxetamine, MXE / Methoxetamine, MXE». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for MXE, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for MXE.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for MXE, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: 甲氧基乙胺酮; methoxetamine; MXE. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-C, item 13: Methoxetamine, MXE / Methoxetamine, MXE.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-C, item 13, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Nicotine

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Nicotine is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for nicotina, nicotine and 尼古丁 found no entry. The string nicotin occurs only inside the chemical names of the Table I-A opioids «Nicocodina», «Nicomorfina» and «Nicodicodina», which are nicotinyl esters. That is not a statement that nicotine is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because nicotine is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing. Article 15 of Law 5/2011, as replaced by Law 13/2022, in force 90 days after its publication on 5 September 2022, prohibits manufacturing, distributing, selling, importing and exporting, including carrying on entry to and exit from Macau, «cigarros electrónicos e produtos do tabaco destinados ao uso oral ou a serem inalados», and Article 23(1)(5) fines a breach 4 000 patacas save in the cases of its subparagraphs 7) and 9), which were not read. An e-cigarette is caught by name; whether a nicotine product holding no tobacco is among the «produtos do tabaco» is not settled by the text read.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read gives nicotine a prescription route; whether nicotine replacement medicines are regulated as medicines was not read.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Law 13/2022, amending Articles 15 and 23 of Law 5/2011, Regime de prevenção e controlo do tabagismo, Boletim Oficial n.º 36 of 5 September 2022, https://www.al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2022-09/7735463154d3d01ea2.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table IV, item 45, prints «尼美西泮 / Nimetazepam». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(3). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(3) sets 1 to 5 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a Table IV substance and 2 to 8 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for nimetazepam, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for nimetazepam.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for nimetazepam, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: nimetazepam. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table IV, item 45: 尼美西泮 / Nimetazepam.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table IV, item 45, and Articles 8(3), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Nitrous Oxide

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Nitrous oxide is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for nitroso, nitrous, 一氧化二氮 and 笑氣 found no entry. No gas is named in Tables I to IV; Tables V and VI list precursors such as «Permanganato de potássio» and «Ácido clorídrico», which are not nitrous oxide. That is not a statement that nitrous oxide is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because nitrous oxide is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for nitrous oxide, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether nitrous oxide is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before. Product, customs and medicines law on nitrous oxide was not read.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Opium

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table I-A, item 92, prints «阿片 - 罌粟汁凝固物（植物物種：Papaver somniferum L.） / Ópio - O suco coagulado da papoila de ópio (espécie de planta: Papaver somniferum L.)». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table gives 1 g, and five times that is 5 g. Article 14(2) redirects quantities above fivefold for assessment under Articles 7, 8 or 11. Article 11(2) also asks whether the quantity does not exceed five times the daily reference when assessing substantially reduced unlawfulness; the dossier says that is not a possession allowance. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for opium.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for opium, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: opium. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table I-A, item 92: 阿片 - 罌粟汁凝固物（植物物種：Papaver somniferum L.） / Ópio - O suco coagulado da papoila de ópio (espécie de planta: Papaver somniferum L.).

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table I-A, item 92, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table I-A, item 94, prints «羥考酮 / Oxicodona». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for oxycodone, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for oxycodone.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for oxycodone, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: oxycodone. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table I-A, item 94: 羥考酮 / Oxicodona.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table I-A, item 94, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 15, prints «苯環利定 / Fenciclidina, PCP». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table gives 0.01 g, and five times that is 0.05 g. Article 14(2) redirects quantities above fivefold for assessment under Articles 7, 8 or 11. Article 11(2) also asks whether the quantity does not exceed five times the daily reference when assessing substantially reduced unlawfulness; the dossier says that is not a possession allowance. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for PCP.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for PCP, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: phencyclidine; PCP. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-A, item 15: 苯環利定 / Fenciclidina, PCP.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-A, item 15, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Phenibut

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Phenibut is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for fenibut, phenibut, 苯尼布特 and 4-amino-3-phenylbutanoic found no entry. The nearest GABA related row is Table II-C's «Ácido gama-hidroxibutírico, GHB», a different compound. Phenibut shares its molecular formula with Table II-A's «Tenanfetamina, MDA» (a fact brought from outside the text), but it is not within MDA's chemical name, so on the reading of the isomer note stated below it is not an isomer the note reaches. That is not a statement that phenibut is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because phenibut is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for phenibut, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether phenibut is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Poppers

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Poppers, a product name for alkyl nitrite liquids, a description brought from outside the text, names no substance printed in Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for poppers, nitrit, 亞硝酸 and alkyl nitrite found no entry. No alkyl nitrite is named in any table, and Table V's precursor entries, such as «Isosafrole» and «Piperonal», are not nitrites. That is not a statement that poppers is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because poppers is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for poppers, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether poppers is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before. Medicines, consumer product and customs law on nitrite liquids was not read.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Pregabalin is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for pregabalin and 普瑞巴林 found no entry. Table IV, whose 69 rows run from «Alobarbital» to «Carisoprodol», added by Law 12/2026, names no gabapentinoid, and neither does any other table. That is not a statement that pregabalin is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because pregabalin is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for pregabalin, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether pregabalin is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 29, prints «賽洛西賓 / Psilocibina». The quoted entry names psilocybin, the molecule; this row quotes no separate entry for the mushrooms that contain it. The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for psilocybin, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for psilocybin.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for psilocybin, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: psilocybin; psilocin; mushrooms. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table II-A, item 29: 賽洛西賓 / Psilocibina.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-A, item 29, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Quetiapine

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Quetiapine is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for quetiapin and 喹硫平 found no entry. No antipsychotic is named in Tables I to IV. That is not a statement that quetiapine is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because quetiapine is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for quetiapine, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether quetiapine is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Salvia divinorum

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 36, prints «墨西哥鼠尾草». The quoted item names the plant in Chinese only; the dossier records that the II-A table separately names the Salvia divinorum plant and salvinorin A, at items 36 and 37, and quotes only item 36. The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(1) and 8(2). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(1) sets 5 to 15 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a substance in Tables I to III, and Article 8(2) sets 6 to 16 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for Salvia divinorum, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for Salvia divinorum.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for Salvia divinorum, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: 墨西哥鼠尾草; Salvia divinorum; 丹參酮A (salvinorin A). Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: II-A items 36 and 37.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table II-A, item 36, and Articles 8(1), 8(2), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Scopolamine is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for escopolamin, scopolamin, hioscina, hyoscine and 東莨菪鹼 found no entry. The only tropane entries are «Cocaína», «Cocaína-D» and «Ecgonina» in Table I-B, whose closing note reaches salts only, and «sulfato de atropina», which Table III items 5 and 6 require as an ingredient of difenoxin and difenoxilato preparations rather than list as controlled. That is not a statement that scopolamine is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because scopolamine is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for scopolamine, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether scopolamine is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Tobacco

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Tobacco is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for tabaco, tobacco and 煙草 found no entry. No plant of the genus Nicotiana is named. That is not a statement that tobacco is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because tobacco is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing. Article 15 of Law 5/2011, as replaced by Law 13/2022, in force 90 days after its publication on 5 September 2022, says «É proibido fabricar, distribuir, vender, importar e exportar, incluindo transportar consigo na entrada e saída da RAEM, cigarros electrónicos e produtos do tabaco destinados ao uso oral ou a serem inalados», and Article 23(1)(5) fines a breach 4 000 patacas save in the cases of its subparagraphs 7) and 9), which were not read. The rest of Law 5/2011, including any age rule for sale, was not read.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read gives tobacco a prescription route.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Law 13/2022, amending Articles 15 and 23 of Law 5/2011, Regime de prevenção e controlo do tabagismo, Boletim Oficial n.º 36 of 5 September 2022, https://www.al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2022-09/7735463154d3d01ea2.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Tramadol

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Tramadol is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for tramadol, 曲馬多 and 特拉嗎竇 found no entry. The nearest synthetic opioid rows are Table I-A's «Tilidina» and «Dextropropoxifeno» and Table III's dextropropoxyphene preparations; tramadol is none of them. That is not a statement that tramadol is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because tramadol is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for tramadol, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether tramadol is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table IV, item 2, prints «阿普唑侖 / Alprazolam». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(3). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(3) sets 1 to 5 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a Table IV substance and 2 to 8 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for alprazolam, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for alprazolam.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for alprazolam, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: alprazolam; benzodiazepine. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table IV, item 2: 阿普唑侖 / Alprazolam.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table IV, item 2, and Articles 8(3), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Xylazine

Legal status: Not listed in Macau. Xylazine is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for xylazin, xilazin, 賽拉嗪 and 甲苯噻嗪 found no entry. No veterinary sedative of this class is named in Tables I to IV; the nearest sedative rows are the etomidate analogues Law 2/2025 and Law 12/2026 put in Table II-C, such as «Etomidate» and «Metomidate», which are different compounds. That is not a statement that xylazine is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because xylazine is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical: Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for xylazine, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether xylazine is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation: Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp · Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp · Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp · Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf · justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf · Updated October 4, 2026

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table IV, item 61, prints «唑吡旦 / Zolpidem». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(3). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(3) sets 1 to 5 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a Table IV substance and 2 to 8 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for zolpidem, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for zolpidem.
Documentation: The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for zolpidem, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: 佐沛眠; zolpidem. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table IV, item 61: 唑吡旦 / Zolpidem.

Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table IV, item 61, and Articles 8(3), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · pj.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026

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Substance	What we found
2C-E	Not confirmed. The Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026 searched Law 17/2009 Tables I-A to VI, as...
2C-I	Not confirmed. The Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026 searched Law 17/2009 Tables I-A to VI, as...
3-MMC	Not confirmed. The Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026 places 3-MMC under Law 17/2009 Table II-A item...
6-APB	Not confirmed. The Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026 searched Law 17/2009 Tables I-A to VI, as...
Alcohol	Not confirmed. The Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026 searched Law 17/2009 Tables I-A to VI, as...
Barbiturates	Not confirmed. Barbiturates is a class, not one compound. The Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026...
Cannabinol	Not confirmed. The Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026 searched Law 17/2009 Tables I-A to VI, as...
CBD	Not confirmed. The Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026 searched Law 17/2009 Tables I-A to VI, as...
Khat	Not confirmed. The Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026 searched Law 17/2009 Tables I-A to VI, as...
MDPV	Not confirmed. The Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026 places MDPV under Law 17/2009 Table II-A item...
Mephedrone (4-MMC)	Not confirmed. The Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026 places mephedrone under Law 17/2009 Table II-A...
Methylone	Not confirmed. The Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026 places methylone under Law 17/2009 Table II-A...
Peyote	Not confirmed. The Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026 searched Law 17/2009 Tables I-A to VI, as...
Pink Cocaine / Tusi	Not confirmed. Pink cocaine, or tusi, is a street label, not a substance. The dossier finds a variable street...
Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)	Not confirmed. Synthetic cannabinoids is an open chemical family, not one substance. The dossier records that item...
THC-P	Not confirmed. The Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026 searched Law 17/2009 Tables I-A to VI, as...