Legal status in Malta

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

88 confirmed substances0 not individually verifiedLast updated October 8, 2026

Confirmed legal status

1P-LSD

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs 1P-LSD is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for 1P-LSD records that the source searched both consolidated texts for '1P-LSD', '1-propionyl-LSD', and '1-propionyl-lysergic acid diethylamide'; none appears, and this dossier does not assume the Part A word 'derivatives' decides the point without Maltese authority. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for 1P-LSD in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for 1P-LSD was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for 1P-LSD, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, 1P-LSD, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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2-FDCK

Legal status: 2-FDCK is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. 2-FDCK sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "2-FLUORODESCHLOROKETAMINE (2-FDCK) 2-(2-fluorophenyl)-2-methylamino-cyclohexanone". The exact 2-FDCK name and chemical description appear in Part B, so Chapter 31 governs rather than Chapter 101. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and 2-FDCK is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and 2-FDCK is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls 2-FDCK is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name 2-FDCK itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if 2-FDCK was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, 2-FDCK, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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25I-NBOMe

Legal status: 25I-NBOMe is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. 25I-NBOMe sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "25I-NBOMe (2C-I-NBOMe)". 25I-NBOMe is expressly listed in Part A of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. 25I-NBOMe is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls 25I-NBOMe is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name 25I-NBOMe itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if 25I-NBOMe was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, 25I-NBOMe, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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2C-B

Legal status: 2C-B is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. 2C-B sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "2C-B (4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine)". 2C-B is an express Part B psychotropic entry under Chapter 31. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and 2C-B is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and 2C-B is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls 2C-B is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name 2C-B itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if 2C-B was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, 2C-B, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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2C-E

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs 2C-E is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for 2C-E records that the source searched for '2C-E' and '2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethylphenethylamine' in Chapters 31 and 101; neither string appears in the consolidated schedules. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for 2C-E in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for 2C-E was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for 2C-E, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, 2C-E, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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2C-I

Legal status: 2C-I is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. 2C-I sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "2C-1 (2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenethylamine)". The official schedule prints '2C-1', but its quoted chemical name is the chemical assigned to 2C-I; the verification rests on that chemical name and the apparent typographical character in the consolidated text. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. 2C-I is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls 2C-I is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term 2C-I. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if 2C-I was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, 2C-I, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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2C-T-7

Legal status: 2C-T-7 is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. 2C-T-7 sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "2C-T-7 (2,5-dimethoxy-4-(n)-propylthiophenethylamine)". 2C-T-7 is expressly listed in Part A of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. 2C-T-7 is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls 2C-T-7 is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name 2C-T-7 itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if 2C-T-7 was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, 2C-T-7, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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3-MMC

Legal status: 3-MMC is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. 3-MMC sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "3-methylmethcathinone, 3-MMC". 3-MMC is expressly listed in Part B of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and 3-MMC is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and 3-MMC is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls 3-MMC is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name 3-MMC itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if 3-MMC was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, 3-MMC, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: 4-AcO-DMT is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. 4-AcO-DMT sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "PSILOCINE, PSILOTSIN"... "And any derivatives, salts, or esters of the above." 4-AcO-DMT is the acetate ester of psilocin, and Part A expressly extends to esters; this is an ester-based classification, not an exact-name listing. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. 4-AcO-DMT is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls 4-AcO-DMT is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term 4-AcO-DMT. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if 4-AcO-DMT was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, 4-AcO-DMT, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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4-HO-MET

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs 4-HO-MET is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for 4-HO-MET records that the source searched for '4-HO-MET', 'metocin', and '4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine'; no express entry was found, and no Maltese decision defining the Part A derivative clause for this compound was located. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for 4-HO-MET in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for 4-HO-MET was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for 4-HO-MET, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, 4-HO-MET, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs 5-MeO-DMT is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for 5-MeO-DMT records that the source searched for '5-MeO-DMT', '5-methoxy-DMT', and '5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine'; the consolidated schedules contain DMT but not this named compound. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for 5-MeO-DMT in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for 5-MeO-DMT was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for 5-MeO-DMT, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, 5-MeO-DMT, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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6-APB

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs 6-APB is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for 6-APB records that the source searched for '6-APB', 'benzofury', and '6-(2-aminopropyl)benzofuran'; no match appears in either consolidated drug schedule. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for 6-APB in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for 6-APB was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for 6-APB, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, 6-APB, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs 7-hydroxymitragynine is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for 7-hydroxymitragynine records that the source searched for '7-hydroxymitragynine', '7-OH-mitragynine', and 'mitragynine'; none appears in Chapters 31 or 101. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for 7-hydroxymitragynine in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for 7-hydroxymitragynine was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for 7-hydroxymitragynine, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, 7-hydroxymitragynine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Adderall is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Adderall sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "AMPHETAMINE" and "DEXAMPHETAMINE". Adderall is a brand formulation whose controlled active amphetamine salts are expressly listed in Part B; lawful prescription handling remains separately authorized. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Adderall is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Adderall is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls adderall is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. The dossier records against this entry that lawful prescription handling remains separately authorized, which is the closest the source comes to confirming a route and stops short of setting out its conditions. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term Adderall. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if adderall was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Adderall, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Alcohol

Legal status: Neither Maltese drug ordinance governs alcohol. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. For this item the answer is that it sits outside both: it is not a single scheduled drug classification under the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, or the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101. The two drug schedules contain no alcohol entry. Alcohol is outside the scheduling question presented by Chapters 31 and 101, so this row does not claim that Malta leaves alcohol unregulated under other laws. The legislation this row did not read, and which may still govern the item, is named by the source itself: medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product safety and driving law.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No penalty ceiling and no Chapter 537 diversion analysis applies to alcohol within this two ordinance question, because it is not a single scheduled drug classification under either ordinance. There is accordingly no article to quote, since the articles that carry the ceilings, Chapter 101 article 22 and Chapter 31 article 120A, operate on scheduled drugs. Other Maltese legislation may impose its own consequences and was not read for this row.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances for alcohol, because neither schedules it, and there is no control here for a prescription to lift. The two ordinance question is the wrong question to ask about this item. Whatever rules govern it in Malta sit in other legislation, which was not read for this row, and the dossier says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Nothing in this cell should be read as saying the item is unregulated.
Documentation: Nothing in the two Maltese drug ordinances tells you what to carry for alcohol, because neither of them schedules it, and a carriage requirement is something a drug control imposes. That is the carriage answer and it is a narrow one: other Maltese legislation governing this item was not read for this row and may impose requirements of its own, including at the border. Read this as the drug schedules having nothing to say rather than as a clearance. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Alcohol, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · outside the two ordinance scheduled drug classification · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Amanita muscaria

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs amanita muscaria is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for Amanita muscaria records that the source searched for 'Amanita muscaria', 'muscimol', and 'ibotenic acid'; none occurs in the consolidated schedules. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for amanita muscaria in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for amanita muscaria was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for amanita muscaria, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Amanita muscaria, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Amphetamine is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Amphetamine sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "AMPHETAMINE (±)-2-amino-1-phenylpropane". Amphetamine is expressly listed in Part B of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Amphetamine is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Amphetamine is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls amphetamine is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Amphetamine itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if amphetamine was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Amphetamine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs amyl nitrite is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for Amyl nitrite records that the source searched for 'amyl nitrite', 'pentyl nitrite', and 'isoamyl nitrite'; none appears in Chapters 31 or 101, without deciding medicines or product-safety law. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for amyl nitrite in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for amyl nitrite was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for amyl nitrite, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Amyl nitrite, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Ayahuasca is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Ayahuasca sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "DMT N.N-dimethyltryptamine". Ayahuasca has no standalone schedule entry, but a preparation actually containing DMT engages the express Part A DMT entry; the conclusion depends on verified contents. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. Ayahuasca is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls ayahuasca is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term Ayahuasca. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if ayahuasca was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Ayahuasca, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Barbiturates

Legal status: Barbiturates are governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Barbiturates sit in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "ALLOBARBITAL", then after an ellipsis "AMOBARBITAL", then "PENTOBARBITAL", and then "SECOBARBITAL", each printed in capitals in the schedule. Barbiturates are represented by multiple express Part B entries, although an individual product still must be matched to a listed compound. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Barbiturates are in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Barbiturates are not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls barbiturates is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term Barbiturates. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if barbiturates were dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Barbiturates, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Benzodiazepines are governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Benzodiazepines sit in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "DIAZEPAM and other compounds containing the chemical structure of DIHYDRO-1:4 BENZODIAZEPINE or of DIHYDRO-1:5 BENZODIAZEPINE substituted to any degree". The broad structural wording makes the benzodiazepines category itself verifiable under Part B. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Benzodiazepines are in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Benzodiazepines are not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls benzodiazepines is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term Benzodiazepines. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if benzodiazepines were dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Benzodiazepines, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Buprenorphine is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Buprenorphine sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "BUPRENORPHINE". Buprenorphine is expressly named in Part B of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Buprenorphine is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Buprenorphine is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls buprenorphine is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Buprenorphine itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if buprenorphine was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Buprenorphine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Caffeine

Legal status: Neither Maltese drug ordinance governs caffeine. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. For this item the answer is that it sits outside both: it is not a single scheduled drug classification under the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, or the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101. The two drug schedules contain no caffeine entry. Caffeine is not a scheduled prohibited drug in the two-ordinance model, while food and medicines controls remain outside this table. The legislation this row did not read, and which may still govern the item, is named by the source itself: medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product safety and driving law.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No penalty ceiling and no Chapter 537 diversion analysis applies to caffeine within this two ordinance question, because it is not a single scheduled drug classification under either ordinance. There is accordingly no article to quote, since the articles that carry the ceilings, Chapter 101 article 22 and Chapter 31 article 120A, operate on scheduled drugs. Other Maltese legislation may impose its own consequences and was not read for this row.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances for caffeine, because neither schedules it, and there is no control here for a prescription to lift. The two ordinance question is the wrong question to ask about this item. Whatever rules govern it in Malta sit in other legislation, which was not read for this row, and the dossier says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Nothing in this cell should be read as saying the item is unregulated.
Documentation: Nothing in the two Maltese drug ordinances tells you what to carry for caffeine, because neither of them schedules it, and a carriage requirement is something a drug control imposes. That is the carriage answer and it is a narrow one: other Maltese legislation governing this item was not read for this row and may impose requirements of its own, including at the border. Read this as the drug schedules having nothing to say rather than as a clearance. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Caffeine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · outside the two ordinance scheduled drug classification · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Cannabinol

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs cannabinol is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for Cannabinol records that the source searched for 'cannabinol' and 'CBN'; neither occurs in the current Fifth Schedule or Chapter 31 Third Schedule, and CBN is not one of the four named non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for cannabinol in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for cannabinol was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for cannabinol, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Cannabinol, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Cannabis is governed by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and it remains a Chapter 101 drug. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. What changed in 2021 did not move it out of Chapter 101. Articles 2, 7, 8 and 22 and the Fifth Schedule carry the control, and the Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, carries the personal and association allowances at articles 4A, 7 and 7A. The Authority on the Responsible Use of Cannabis Act, Chapter 628, being Act LXVI of 2021 as amended by Act XII of 2025, establishes the regulator and nothing more; the operative possession, cultivation, storage and association limits are in Chapter 537. Chapter 631 is not a cannabis statute and citing it for cannabis is a common error in English accounts, because Chapter 631 is the Pre-Insolvency Act. The operative words read "possession... not exceeding seven grams"; "cultivation of up to four plants"; "not more than fifty grams of dried cannabis". Cannabis remains a Chapter 101 drug, but Chapter 537 creates age-, place-, quantity-, and licensing-limited personal and association regimes rather than general legalization. The power to amend the Fifth Schedule is article 34(3).
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life. Dealing or possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor can reach life under Chapter 101 article 22, and cannabis is still a Chapter 101 drug. What the 2021 reform did was carve conditional exclusions into that framework, and it is not legalisation. Chapter 537 article 4A makes adult personal possession not exceeding 7 grams non-criminal, and sends more than 7 grams and not more than 28 grams to the Commissioner for Justice with a penalty of between €50 and €100. Article 7 protects up to four plants and not more than 50 grams of dried cannabis at the adult's registered residential address, subject to visibility, nuisance, minor access and location conditions, and the four plant cap is per residence rather than per adult. Article 7A permits registered nonprofit member organisations limited to 7 grams per member per day and 50 grams per member per calendar month. Outside those limits the ordinary position returns: public consumption, consumption in the presence of a minor, unlicensed supply and trafficking all remain unlawful, and a tourist has no registered residential address in Malta and cannot join an association on arrival.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls cannabis is the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, which is the narcotics ordinance rather than the medical one. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 101 article 22 reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. Chapter 537 is a treatment statute rather than a prescribing one, and its articles 4A, 7 and 7A create adult personal allowances rather than a medical supply route, so they are not the answer to a prescription question. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel.
Documentation: There is nothing you can carry that extends Malta's cannabis allowances to a visitor. The allowances turn on being an adult with a registered residential address in Malta, or on membership of a registered nonprofit association, and no document substitutes for either. A foreign prescription, a foreign medical cannabis card and a foreign association membership are all outside the Maltese scheme, which is defined by residence and registration rather than by paperwork you bring with you. No import route for cannabis appears in the texts read for this row, and confirming with a Maltese mission before travel is the only way to settle a specific case. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, the Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, and the Authority on the Responsible Use of Cannabis Act, Chapter 628 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/537/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/628/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Cannabis, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Cap. 101 arts. 2, 7, 8, 22 and Fifth Schedule · Cap. 537 arts. 4A, 7 and 7A · Cap. 628 establishes the regulator, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Cathinone is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Cathinone sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "CATHINONE (-)-a-aminopropiophenone". Cathinone is expressly listed in Part A of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. Cathinone is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls cathinone is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Cathinone itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if cathinone was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Cathinone, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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CBD

Legal status: CBD is dealt with by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and the way it is dealt with is an exclusion rather than a control. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Here Chapter 101 answers. Article 2 and Part I of the Fifth Schedule classify CBD as a non-psychoactive phytocannabinoid, and the statutory definition of cannabis excludes qualifying products. The text reads "CBD, Cannabidiol"; cannabis excludes products "derived from non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids containing not more than zero point two (0.2) percent of psychoactive cannabinoids". CBD is expressly classified as a non-psychoactive phytocannabinoid, but the statutory cannabis exclusion depends on the 0.2 percent psychoactive-cannabinoid ceiling. The exclusion is conditional on that ceiling rather than on the product being sold as CBD, so a product that exceeds it, or that carries a controlled cannabinoid, falls back into the cannabis rules. The power to amend the Fifth Schedule is article 34(3).
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No drug law penalty and no diversion analysis is triggered while the product meets the quoted classification and stays at or under the 0.2 per cent psychoactive cannabinoid ceiling, so there is no ceiling to state for a compliant product. Above that ceiling, or where a controlled cannabinoid is present, the exclusion falls away and the cannabis rules have to be reassessed, and those carry life under Chapter 101 article 22 for dealing or possession not for the exclusive use of the possessor. The exposure therefore turns on the composition of the specific product rather than on its label, and a traveller cannot verify that ceiling at the border.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription question arises under the two drug ordinances, because a compliant product is excluded from the definition of cannabis rather than controlled within it, so there is nothing for a prescription to authorise. The condition is the 0.2 per cent psychoactive cannabinoid ceiling and the non-psychoactive phytocannabinoid classification, not the product's description. Where a product fails that condition the cannabis position applies instead, and Chapter 537 is a treatment statute rather than a prescribing one. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. The text that fixes the exclusion is "CBD, Cannabidiol"; cannabis excludes products "derived from non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids containing not more than zero point two (0.2) percent of psychoactive cannabinoids".
Documentation: Carry the product's certificate of analysis and its full ingredient declaration, because the exclusion this substance relies on is conditional on composition and a label does not prove composition. The condition is a psychoactive cannabinoid content at or below 0.2 per cent together with the non-psychoactive phytocannabinoid classification, and a product sold lawfully elsewhere may not meet it. No Maltese import permit or advance declaration route for such a product appears in the texts read for this row, so a Maltese mission is the place to confirm a specific product before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, CBD, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Cap. 101 art. 2 and Fifth Schedule Part I · amendment power in art. 34(3), and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Clonazepam is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Clonazepam sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "DIAZEPAM and other compounds containing the chemical structure of DIHYDRO-1:4 BENZODIAZEPINE or of DIHYDRO-1:5 BENZODIAZEPINE substituted to any degree". Clonazepam is captured by Part B's express substituted-benzodiazepine structural wording. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Clonazepam is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Clonazepam is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls clonazepam is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term Clonazepam. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if clonazepam was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Clonazepam, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Cocaine is governed by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and not by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 101 is the one that carries the narcotics and cannabis. Cocaine sits in Part I of the First Schedule, and article 10(1) fixes what that Part reaches: ‘The drugs to which this Part of this Ordinance applies are those mentioned in the First Schedule hereto.’ Article 22 carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "COCAINE". Cocaine is expressly listed in Part I of Chapter 101's First Schedule. The power to change that list is article 34(1): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may by regulations amend the First, the Second and the Third Schedules to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life. Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, and that is the article cocaine is exposed to, because it is a Chapter 101 drug rather than a Chapter 31 psychotropic. Other Chapter 101 offences have lower court-dependent ceilings, so life is the statutory maximum rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls cocaine is the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, which is the narcotics ordinance rather than the medical one. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 101 article 22 reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Cocaine itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if cocaine was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Cocaine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 101 · First Schedule Part I · arts. 10 and 22, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Codeine is governed by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and not by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Codeine sits in Part II of the First Schedule rather than Part I, and the preparation exemptions in Part III apply to it, which is the feature that separates it from the Part I opiates. Article 10(1) fixes what the First Schedule reaches: ‘The drugs to which this Part of this Ordinance applies are those mentioned in the First Schedule hereto.’ Article 22 carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "CODEINE". Codeine appears in Part II of Chapter 101's First Schedule, subject to the preparation exemptions in Part III. The power to change that list is article 34(1): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may by regulations amend the First, the Second and the Third Schedules to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life. Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, and codeine is a Chapter 101 drug. The Part III preparation exemptions bear on whether a given preparation is caught at all rather than on the ceiling that applies once it is, so a preparation outside the exemptions is exposed to the full article 22 range. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls codeine is the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, which is the narcotics ordinance rather than the medical one. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 101 article 22 reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. Codeine is the one substance here where the schedules themselves carry a medicines distinction: Part III of the First Schedule exempts preparations, so whether a given codeine product is caught at all turns on the preparation rather than on the molecule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Codeine itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if codeine was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Codeine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 101 · First Schedule Part II and exemptions in Part III · arts. 10 and 22, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Crack cocaine is governed by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and not by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 101 is the one that carries the narcotics and cannabis. Crack cocaine sits in Part I of the First Schedule, and article 10(1) fixes what that Part reaches: ‘The drugs to which this Part of this Ordinance applies are those mentioned in the First Schedule hereto.’ Article 22 carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "COCAINE". Crack cocaine is a cocaine form, so the governing express First Schedule entry is cocaine rather than a separate 'crack' entry. The power to change that list is article 34(1): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may by regulations amend the First, the Second and the Third Schedules to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life. Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, and that is the article crack cocaine is exposed to, because it is a Chapter 101 drug rather than a Chapter 31 psychotropic. Other Chapter 101 offences have lower court-dependent ceilings, so life is the statutory maximum rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls crack cocaine is the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, which is the narcotics ordinance rather than the medical one. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 101 article 22 reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term Crack cocaine. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if crack cocaine was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Crack cocaine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 101 · First Schedule Part I · arts. 10 and 22, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Delta-8-THC is controlled in Malta, covered by the Part A THC-isomer entry. Delta-8-THC is governed by both Maltese drug ordinances, which is the uncommon case. Malta runs two drug ordinances and an answer from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Here the answer is that the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, reaches it through article 2 and Parts II and III of the Fifth Schedule, covering psychoactive and synthetic cannabinoids, and the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, reaches named entries of this family through its Third Schedule. Penalties therefore run through article 22 of Chapter 101 or article 120A of Chapter 31 depending on which limb catches the particular compound. The relevant text reads «TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL, following isomers and their stereo chemical variants». A chemically processed or refined product may also meet Chapter 101's synthetic-cannabinoid definition. Chapter 101 says synthetic cannabinoids are prohibited and punishable in the same manner as cannabis offences, so the plant cannabis allowances are not available for them. The power to amend the Fifth Schedule is article 34(3), which lets the Minister responsible for the cannabis authority classify non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids, psychoactive cannabinoids and synthetic cannabinoids by regulation.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life. A controlled synthetic or psychotropic cannabinoid offence can reach life under article 22 of Chapter 101 or under article 120A of Chapter 31 where Part A applies, so which ordinance supplies the ceiling depends on which limb catches the particular compound, but the ceiling itself is life either way. The plant cannabis allowances are not available to Delta-8-THC. The seven gram personal possession exclusion in Chapter 537 article 4A is written for cannabis and is not assumed here, and Chapter 101 provides that synthetic cannabinoids are punishable in the same manner as cannabis offences rather than benefiting from the cannabis allowances. The general Chapter 537 article 4 route applies only if the substance is a prohibited drug, the amount is ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’, and the personal use circumstances are satisfied. The penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’.
If prescribed / medical: Both ordinances reach Delta-8-THC. The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, catches it through the Fifth Schedule and the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, catches named entries of the family through its Third Schedule, so which one answers a prescription question depends on the particular compound. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Article 22 of Chapter 101 and article 120A of Chapter 31 alike reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. No therapeutic use is identified for this compound in either schedule, so there is no medical form of it for a route to attach to on the face of these texts. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term Delta-8-THC. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if Delta-8-THC was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Delta-8-THC, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Cap. 101 art. 2 and Fifth Schedule Parts II-III · Cap. 31 Third Schedule (named entries) · penalty arts. 22 / 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated October 8, 2026

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Diazepam

Legal status: Diazepam is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Diazepam sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "DIAZEPAM and other compounds containing the chemical structure of DIHYDRO-1:4 BENZODIAZEPINE or of DIHYDRO-1:5 BENZODIAZEPINE substituted to any degree". Diazepam is both named and used as the anchor for the broader Part B benzodiazepine structural class. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Diazepam is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Diazepam is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls diazepam is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Diazepam itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if diazepam was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Diazepam, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: DMT is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. DMT sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "DMT N.N-dimethyltryptamine". DMT is expressly listed in Part A of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. DMT is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls DMT is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name DMT itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if DMT was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, DMT, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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DOM

Legal status: DOM is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. DOM sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "STP. DOM 2-amino-1-(2, 5-dimethoxy-4-methyl) phenylpropane". DOM is expressly listed with the STP synonym in Part A. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. DOM is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls DOM is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name DOM itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if DOM was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, DOM, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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DXM

Legal status: DXM is dealt with by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and the way it is dealt with is an express exclusion. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Here Chapter 101 answers, and it answers by naming dextromethorphan, not the abbreviation DXM, in order to put it outside Part I of the First Schedule. The text reads "DEXTROMETHROPHAN and DEXTRORPHAN are specifically excluded from this Part of the Schedule." DXM is affirmatively excluded from Chapter 101 First Schedule Part I; this does not decide pharmacy, sale, or misuse controls elsewhere. An express exclusion is a stronger result than absence from a schedule, because the drafter considered the substance and left it out. It decides the First Schedule question and nothing else.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No Chapter 101 drug ceiling follows from the schedule entry, because the entry is an exclusion: the First Schedule expressly excludes dextromethorphan, so there is no prohibited drug offence for it to trigger and no Chapter 537 diversion route to need. That result is confined to the First Schedule question. Pharmacy, sale and misuse controls elsewhere in Maltese law were not read for this row and are not decided by it.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription question arises under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, because the First Schedule excludes the substance expressly rather than controlling it, so no Chapter 101 authorisation is needed for it. That is the whole of what the exclusion decides. Pharmacy, sale and misuse controls elsewhere in Maltese law were not read for this row, and a cough preparation sold under pharmacy supervision in one country is not automatically sold the same way in another. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. The text that fixes the exclusion is "DEXTROMETHROPHAN and DEXTRORPHAN are specifically excluded from this Part of the Schedule."
Documentation: Carry the preparation in its original retail or dispensing packaging with the ingredient list intact, because the exclusion is written for the named substance and packaging is what shows which substance you are carrying. Nothing further is identified as required by the texts read for this row, and no Maltese import permit or advance declaration route for it appears in them. Pharmacy and sale rules elsewhere in Maltese law were not read here, so a Maltese mission remains the place to confirm a specific product. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, DXM, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Cap. 101 First Schedule Part I exclusion · no prohibited-drug article triggered by that entry, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Ephedrine is governed by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and not by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Ephedrine is not an ordinary scheduled drug at all. It sits in the Third Schedule as a precursor, and the offence written for it is article 22(1D), which reaches dealing with knowledge or suspicion that the substance is for use in producing a drug. The schedule entry reads "Ephedrine". Ephedrine appears in Chapter 101's Third Schedule as a precursor, not as an ordinary scheduled drug, and article 22(1D) requires knowledge or suspicion of use in drug production. The power to change that list is article 34(1): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may by regulations amend the First, the Second and the Third Schedules to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is reached by an unusual route. Ephedrine is a Third Schedule precursor, so the offence written for it is article 22(1D) of Chapter 101, which targets dealing with knowledge or suspicion that the substance is for use in drug production, and that offence can reach life under article 22(2)(a)(i). The Chapter 537 route does not follow automatically here. Its personal possession route is not established for mere precursor possession, because Chapter 537 defines a prohibited drug by reference to Chapter 31 article 120A or Chapter 101 article 22 rather than to the precursor provision. Knowledge or suspicion is an element the prosecution has to prove, so possession alone is not the article 22(1D) offence.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls ephedrine is the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, which is the narcotics ordinance rather than the medical one. Article 22(1D) requires knowledge or suspicion that the substance is for use in producing a drug, so ordinary possession of a medicine or a preparation containing it is outside the offence as defined. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Ephedrine itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if ephedrine was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Ephedrine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Cap. 101 Third Schedule · art. 22(1D) · schedule amendment under art. 34(1), and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Etizolam

Legal status: Etizolam is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Etizolam sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "Etizolam (or Y-7131 or Depas)". Etizolam is expressly listed by name and synonyms in Part B. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Etizolam is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Etizolam is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls etizolam is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Etizolam itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if etizolam was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Etizolam, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Fentanyl is governed by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and not by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 101 is the one that carries the narcotics and cannabis. Fentanyl sits in Part I of the First Schedule, and article 10(1) fixes what that Part reaches: ‘The drugs to which this Part of this Ordinance applies are those mentioned in the First Schedule hereto.’ Article 22 carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "FENTANYL". Fentanyl is expressly listed in Part I of Chapter 101's First Schedule. The power to change that list is article 34(1): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may by regulations amend the First, the Second and the Third Schedules to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life. Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, and that is the article fentanyl is exposed to, because it is a Chapter 101 drug rather than a Chapter 31 psychotropic. Other Chapter 101 offences have lower court-dependent ceilings, so life is the statutory maximum rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls fentanyl is the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, which is the narcotics ordinance rather than the medical one. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 101 article 22 reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Fentanyl itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if fentanyl was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Fentanyl, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 101 · First Schedule Part I · arts. 10 and 22, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Gabapentin

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs gabapentin is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for Gabapentin records that the source searched for 'gabapentin' and '1-(aminomethyl)cyclohexaneacetic acid'; no entry appears in Chapters 31 or 101. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for gabapentin in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for gabapentin was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for gabapentin, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Gabapentin, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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GBL

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs GBL is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for GBL records that the source searched for 'GBL', 'gamma-butyrolactone', and 'butyrolactone'; none appears, although GHB itself is separately listed. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for GBL in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for GBL was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for GBL, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, GBL, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: GHB is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. GHB sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "GHB (γ-hydroxybutyric acid)". GHB is expressly listed in Part B of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and GHB is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and GHB is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls GHB is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name GHB itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if GHB was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, GHB, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Heroin is governed by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and not by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 101 is the one that carries the narcotics and cannabis. Heroin sits in Part I of the First Schedule, and article 10(1) fixes what that Part reaches: ‘The drugs to which this Part of this Ordinance applies are those mentioned in the First Schedule hereto.’ Article 22 carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "HEROIN". Heroin is expressly listed in Part I of Chapter 101's First Schedule. The power to change that list is article 34(1): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may by regulations amend the First, the Second and the Third Schedules to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life. Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, and that is the article heroin is exposed to, because it is a Chapter 101 drug rather than a Chapter 31 psychotropic. Other Chapter 101 offences have lower court-dependent ceilings, so life is the statutory maximum rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls heroin is the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, which is the narcotics ordinance rather than the medical one. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 101 article 22 reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Heroin itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if heroin was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Heroin, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 101 · First Schedule Part I · arts. 10 and 22, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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HHC

Legal status: HHC is expressly listed in Chapter 31 Part A and Chapter 101 Fifth Schedule Part III, making it a controlled synthetic cannabinoid rather than lawful plant cannabis. HHC is governed by both Maltese drug ordinances, which is the uncommon case. Malta runs two drug ordinances and an answer from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Here the answer is that the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, reaches it through article 2 and Parts II and III of the Fifth Schedule, covering psychoactive and synthetic cannabinoids, and the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, reaches named entries of this family through its Third Schedule. Penalties therefore run through article 22 of Chapter 101 or article 120A of Chapter 31 depending on which limb catches the particular compound. The relevant text reads «HHC, hexahydrocannabinol». Chapter 101 says synthetic cannabinoids are prohibited and punishable in the same manner as cannabis offences, so the plant cannabis allowances are not available for them. The power to amend the Fifth Schedule is article 34(3), which lets the Minister responsible for the cannabis authority classify non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids, psychoactive cannabinoids and synthetic cannabinoids by regulation.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life. A controlled synthetic or psychotropic cannabinoid offence can reach life under article 22 of Chapter 101 or under article 120A of Chapter 31 where Part A applies, so which ordinance supplies the ceiling depends on which limb catches the particular compound, but the ceiling itself is life either way. The plant cannabis allowances are not available to HHC. The seven gram personal possession exclusion in Chapter 537 article 4A is written for cannabis and is not assumed here, and Chapter 101 provides that synthetic cannabinoids are punishable in the same manner as cannabis offences rather than benefiting from the cannabis allowances. The general Chapter 537 article 4 route applies only if the substance is a prohibited drug, the amount is ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’, and the personal use circumstances are satisfied. The penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’.
If prescribed / medical: Both ordinances reach HHC. The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, catches it through the Fifth Schedule and the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, catches named entries of the family through its Third Schedule, so which one answers a prescription question depends on the particular compound. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Article 22 of Chapter 101 and article 120A of Chapter 31 alike reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. No therapeutic use is identified for this compound in either schedule, so there is no medical form of it for a route to attach to on the face of these texts. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name HHC itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if HHC was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, HHC, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Cap. 101 art. 2 and Fifth Schedule Parts II-III · Cap. 31 Third Schedule (named entries) · penalty arts. 22 / 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated October 8, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Hydrocodone is governed by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and not by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 101 is the one that carries the narcotics and cannabis. Hydrocodone sits in Part I of the First Schedule, and article 10(1) fixes what that Part reaches: ‘The drugs to which this Part of this Ordinance applies are those mentioned in the First Schedule hereto.’ Article 22 carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "HYDROCODONE". Hydrocodone is expressly listed in Part I of Chapter 101's First Schedule. The power to change that list is article 34(1): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may by regulations amend the First, the Second and the Third Schedules to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life. Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, and that is the article hydrocodone is exposed to, because it is a Chapter 101 drug rather than a Chapter 31 psychotropic. Other Chapter 101 offences have lower court-dependent ceilings, so life is the statutory maximum rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls hydrocodone is the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, which is the narcotics ordinance rather than the medical one. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 101 article 22 reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Hydrocodone itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if hydrocodone was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Hydrocodone, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 101 · First Schedule Part I · arts. 10 and 22, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Ketamine

Legal status: Ketamine is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Ketamine sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "KETAMINE (±)-2-(2-Chlorophenyl)-2-methylaminocyclohexanone". Ketamine is expressly listed in Part B of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Ketamine is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Ketamine is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls ketamine is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Ketamine itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if ketamine was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Ketamine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Khat

Legal status: Khat is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Khat is the exception to Malta's schedule model: it is on no schedule. Article 40B of Chapter 31 creates a standalone plant offence for it, and the penalties sit in that same article rather than in article 120A. The provision reads "Any person who... has in his possession... the whole or any portion of the plant Khat... shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance." Khat is controlled by the standalone plant offence in Chapter 31 article 40B, independently of the separate Part A cathinone entry. The separate Part A entry for cathinone is a different control and does not displace article 40B.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is ten years and a fine of €23,293.73, set by Chapter 31 article 40B(2)(a) for the Criminal Court. Khat is not on a schedule, so neither the Part A life ceiling in article 120A(2)(a)(i) nor the Part B ten year ceiling in article 120A(2)(a)(ii) is the operative provision; article 40B is a standalone plant offence with its own penalty. The Chapter 537 Commissioner route does not apply, and the reason is textual: Chapter 537 defines a prohibited drug by pointing to Chapter 31 article 120A or Chapter 101 article 22, and the article 40B khat offence is neither of those. A traveller carrying khat therefore has no diversion route at all, which is a harsher position than a Part B psychotropic on the same ceiling.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls khat is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and khat is the one substance here that sits on no list at all: article 40B is a standalone plant offence rather than an entry in the Third Schedule. Khat is on no schedule, so there is no scheduled medicinal form of it and article 40B is a plant offence rather than a control on a medicine. The offence is committed by possessing the whole or any portion of the plant, which leaves no room for a dispensed form of the plant itself. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent.
Documentation: There is nothing to carry that makes khat lawful in Malta, and no document is identified anywhere in the texts read for this row that would authorise a traveller to bring the plant in. The offence is written around possession of the whole or any portion of the plant, so the form it is carried in changes nothing and a foreign purchase receipt or a customary-use explanation is not a defence the provision makes room for. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Khat, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · no schedule · standalone plant offence and penalties in art. 40B, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Kratom

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs kratom is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for Kratom records that the source searched for 'kratom', 'Mitragyna speciosa', 'mitragynine', and '7-hydroxymitragynine'; all were absent from the two consolidated schedules. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for kratom in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for kratom was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for kratom, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Kratom, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Lorazepam is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Lorazepam sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "DIAZEPAM and other compounds containing the chemical structure of DIHYDRO-1:4 BENZODIAZEPINE or of DIHYDRO-1:5 BENZODIAZEPINE substituted to any degree". Lorazepam is governed by the Part B substituted-benzodiazepine structural class. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Lorazepam is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Lorazepam is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls lorazepam is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term Lorazepam. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if lorazepam was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Lorazepam, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs LSA is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for LSA records that the source searched for 'LSA', 'ergine', and 'lysergic acid amide'; the text lists LSD and the precursor lysergic acid, but not LSA as a scheduled drug. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for LSA in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for LSA was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for LSA, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, LSA, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: LSD is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. LSD sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "(+)LYSERGIDE, LSD, LSD-25... (d-lysergic acid diethylamide)". LSD is expressly listed in Chapter 31 Third Schedule Part A; this is the controlling Malta result for the converting query. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. LSD is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls LSD is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name LSD itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if LSD was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, LSD, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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MDA

Legal status: MDA is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. MDA sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "MDA, METHYLENE DIOXYAMPHETAMINE". MDA is expressly listed in Part A of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. MDA is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls MDA is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name MDA itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if MDA was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, MDA, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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MDMA

Legal status: MDMA is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. MDMA sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "MDMA, TENAMFETAMINE". MDMA is expressly listed with the tenamfetamine name in Part A. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. MDMA is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls MDMA is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name MDMA itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if MDMA was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, MDMA, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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MDPV

Legal status: MDPV is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. MDPV sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV)". MDPV is expressly listed in Part A of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. MDPV is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls MDPV is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name MDPV itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if MDPV was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, MDPV, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Memantine

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs memantine is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for Memantine records that the source searched for 'memantine' and '3,5-dimethyladamantan-1-amine'; neither appears in the consolidated schedules. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for memantine in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for memantine was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for memantine, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Memantine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Mephedrone is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Mephedrone sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone)". Mephedrone is expressly listed in Part A of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. Mephedrone is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls mephedrone is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Mephedrone itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if mephedrone was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Mephedrone, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Mescaline is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Mescaline sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "MESCALINE" and "MESCAL", then after an ellipsis "PEYOTE" and "PEYOTL", each printed in capitals in the schedule. Mescaline is expressly listed in Part A, with peyote terminology printed in the same entry. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. Mescaline is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls mescaline is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Mescaline itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if mescaline was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Mescaline, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Methadone is governed by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and not by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 101 is the one that carries the narcotics and cannabis. Methadone sits in Part I of the First Schedule, and article 10(1) fixes what that Part reaches: ‘The drugs to which this Part of this Ordinance applies are those mentioned in the First Schedule hereto.’ Article 22 carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "METHADONE". Methadone is expressly listed in Part I of Chapter 101's First Schedule. The power to change that list is article 34(1): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may by regulations amend the First, the Second and the Third Schedules to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life. Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, and that is the article methadone is exposed to, because it is a Chapter 101 drug rather than a Chapter 31 psychotropic. Other Chapter 101 offences have lower court-dependent ceilings, so life is the statutory maximum rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls methadone is the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, which is the narcotics ordinance rather than the medical one. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 101 article 22 reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Methadone itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if methadone was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Methadone, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 101 · First Schedule Part I · arts. 10 and 22, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Methamphetamine is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Methamphetamine sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "METHAMPHETAMINE (+)-2-methylamino-1-phenylpropane". Methamphetamine is expressly listed in Part B of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Methamphetamine is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Methamphetamine is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls methamphetamine is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Methamphetamine itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if methamphetamine was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Methamphetamine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Methaqualone is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Methaqualone sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "METHAQUALONE". Methaqualone is expressly listed in Part B of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Methaqualone is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Methaqualone is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls methaqualone is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Methaqualone itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if methaqualone was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Methaqualone, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Methylone

Legal status: Methylone is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Methylone sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "Methylone (beta-keto-MDMA)". Methylone is expressly listed in Part A of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. Methylone is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls methylone is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Methylone itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if methylone was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Methylone, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Methylphenidate is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Methylphenidate sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "METHYLPHENIDATE". Methylphenidate is expressly listed in Part B of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Methylphenidate is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Methylphenidate is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls methylphenidate is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Methylphenidate itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if methylphenidate was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Methylphenidate, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Mitragynine

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs mitragynine is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for Mitragynine records that the source searched for 'mitragynine', its common spelling, and the related term 'kratom'; no schedule match was found. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for mitragynine in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for mitragynine was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for mitragynine, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Mitragynine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Modafinil

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs modafinil is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for Modafinil records that the source searched for 'modafinil', 'diphenylmethylsulfinylacetamide', and 'Provigil'; none appears in the two drug schedules. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for modafinil in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for modafinil was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for modafinil, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Modafinil, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Morphine

Legal status: Morphine is governed by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and not by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 101 is the one that carries the narcotics and cannabis. Morphine sits in Part I of the First Schedule, and article 10(1) fixes what that Part reaches: ‘The drugs to which this Part of this Ordinance applies are those mentioned in the First Schedule hereto.’ Article 22 carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "MORPHINE". Morphine is expressly listed in Part I of Chapter 101's First Schedule. The power to change that list is article 34(1): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may by regulations amend the First, the Second and the Third Schedules to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life. Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, and that is the article morphine is exposed to, because it is a Chapter 101 drug rather than a Chapter 31 psychotropic. Other Chapter 101 offences have lower court-dependent ceilings, so life is the statutory maximum rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls morphine is the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, which is the narcotics ordinance rather than the medical one. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 101 article 22 reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Morphine itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if morphine was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Morphine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 101 · First Schedule Part I · arts. 10 and 22, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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MXE

Legal status: MXE is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. MXE sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "Methoxetamine". MXE is the standard abbreviation for methoxetamine, which is expressly listed in Part A. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. MXE is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls MXE is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term MXE. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if MXE was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, MXE, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Nicotine

Legal status: Neither Maltese drug ordinance governs nicotine. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. For this item the answer is that it sits outside both: it is not a single scheduled drug classification under the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, or the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101. The two drug schedules contain no nicotine entry. Nicotine is outside this two-ordinance prohibited-drug classification, without addressing tobacco, vaping, poison, or medicines legislation. The legislation this row did not read, and which may still govern the item, is named by the source itself: medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product safety and driving law.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No penalty ceiling and no Chapter 537 diversion analysis applies to nicotine within this two ordinance question, because it is not a single scheduled drug classification under either ordinance. There is accordingly no article to quote, since the articles that carry the ceilings, Chapter 101 article 22 and Chapter 31 article 120A, operate on scheduled drugs. Other Maltese legislation may impose its own consequences and was not read for this row.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances for nicotine, because neither schedules it, and there is no control here for a prescription to lift. The two ordinance question is the wrong question to ask about this item. Whatever rules govern it in Malta sit in other legislation, which was not read for this row, and the dossier says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Nothing in this cell should be read as saying the item is unregulated.
Documentation: Nothing in the two Maltese drug ordinances tells you what to carry for nicotine, because neither of them schedules it, and a carriage requirement is something a drug control imposes. That is the carriage answer and it is a narrow one: other Maltese legislation governing this item was not read for this row and may impose requirements of its own, including at the border. Read this as the drug schedules having nothing to say rather than as a clearance. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Nicotine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · outside the two ordinance scheduled drug classification · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Nimetazepam is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Nimetazepam sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "DIAZEPAM and other compounds containing the chemical structure of DIHYDRO-1:4 BENZODIAZEPINE or of DIHYDRO-1:5 BENZODIAZEPINE substituted to any degree". Nimetazepam is captured by the broad Part B substituted-benzodiazepine entry even though it is not individually printed. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Nimetazepam is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Nimetazepam is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls nimetazepam is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term Nimetazepam. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if nimetazepam was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Nimetazepam, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Nitrous Oxide

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs nitrous oxide is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for Nitrous oxide records that the source searched for 'nitrous oxide', 'dinitrogen monoxide', and 'N2O'; no match appears in Chapters 31 or 101. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for nitrous oxide in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for nitrous oxide was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for nitrous oxide, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Nitrous oxide, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Opium

Legal status: Opium is governed by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and not by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 101 is the one that carries the narcotics and cannabis. Opium sits in Part I of the First Schedule, and article 10(1) fixes what that Part reaches: ‘The drugs to which this Part of this Ordinance applies are those mentioned in the First Schedule hereto.’ Article 22 carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "MEDICINAL OPIUM"; article 2 separately defines "raw opium" and "prepared opium". Opium is governed by Chapter 101 Parts I, II, and IV, with medicinal opium also expressly scheduled. The power to change that list is article 34(1): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may by regulations amend the First, the Second and the Third Schedules to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life. Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, and that is the article opium is exposed to, because it is a Chapter 101 drug rather than a Chapter 31 psychotropic. Other Chapter 101 offences have lower court-dependent ceilings, so life is the statutory maximum rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls opium is the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, which is the narcotics ordinance rather than the medical one. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 101 article 22 reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. The schedule entry itself uses the word medicinal, which shows the drafter separating a therapeutic form from raw and prepared opium, both of which article 2 defines separately. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Opium itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if opium was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Opium, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 101 · First Schedule Part I · arts. 10 and 22, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Oxycodone is governed by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and not by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 101 is the one that carries the narcotics and cannabis. Oxycodone sits in Part I of the First Schedule, and article 10(1) fixes what that Part reaches: ‘The drugs to which this Part of this Ordinance applies are those mentioned in the First Schedule hereto.’ Article 22 carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "OXYCODONE". Oxycodone is expressly listed in Part I of Chapter 101's First Schedule. The power to change that list is article 34(1): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may by regulations amend the First, the Second and the Third Schedules to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life. Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, and that is the article oxycodone is exposed to, because it is a Chapter 101 drug rather than a Chapter 31 psychotropic. Other Chapter 101 offences have lower court-dependent ceilings, so life is the statutory maximum rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls oxycodone is the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, which is the narcotics ordinance rather than the medical one. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 101 article 22 reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Oxycodone itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if oxycodone was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Oxycodone, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 101 · First Schedule Part I · arts. 10 and 22, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: PCP is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. PCP sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "PHENCYCLIDINE". PCP is the standard abbreviation for phencyclidine, expressly listed in Part B. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and PCP is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and PCP is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls PCP is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term PCP. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if PCP was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, PCP, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Peyote

Legal status: Peyote is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Peyote sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "MESCALINE" and "MESCAL", then after an ellipsis "PEYOTE" and "PEYOTL", each printed in capitals in the schedule. Peyote is expressly printed in the Part A mescaline entry rather than inferred only from its mescaline content. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. Peyote is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls peyote is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Peyote itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if peyote was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Peyote, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Phenibut

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs phenibut is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for Phenibut records that the source searched for 'phenibut', 'β-phenyl-γ-aminobutyric acid', and 'beta-phenyl-GABA'; none appears in the schedules. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for phenibut in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for phenibut was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for phenibut, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Phenibut, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Neither Maltese drug ordinance governs pink cocaine. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. For this item the answer is that it sits outside both: it is not a single scheduled drug classification under the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, or the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101. No single statutory substance corresponds to the street label. Pink cocaine or tusi is a variable mixture, so Malta status must be assigned from verified contents such as ketamine or MDMA rather than from the marketing name. The legislation this row did not read, and which may still govern the item, is named by the source itself: medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product safety and driving law.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No penalty ceiling and no Chapter 537 diversion analysis applies to pink cocaine within this two ordinance question, because it is not a single scheduled drug classification under either ordinance. There is accordingly no article to quote, since the articles that carry the ceilings, Chapter 101 article 22 and Chapter 31 article 120A, operate on scheduled drugs. Other Maltese legislation may impose its own consequences and was not read for this row.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances for pink cocaine, because neither schedules it, and there is no control here for a prescription to lift. The two ordinance question is the wrong question to ask about this item. Whatever rules govern it in Malta sit in other legislation, which was not read for this row, and the dossier says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Nothing in this cell should be read as saying the item is unregulated.
Documentation: Nothing in the two Maltese drug ordinances tells you what to carry for pink cocaine, because neither of them schedules it, and a carriage requirement is something a drug control imposes. That is the carriage answer and it is a narrow one: other Maltese legislation governing this item was not read for this row and may impose requirements of its own, including at the border. Read this as the drug schedules having nothing to say rather than as a clearance. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Pink cocaine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · outside the two ordinance scheduled drug classification · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Poppers

Legal status: Neither Maltese drug ordinance governs poppers. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. For this item the answer is that it sits outside both: it is not a single scheduled drug classification under the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, or the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101. No single chemical identity corresponds to the product label. Poppers is a product category for varying alkyl nitrites, so a terminal drug-schedule result cannot be assigned without the actual nitrite and any other ingredients. The legislation this row did not read, and which may still govern the item, is named by the source itself: medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product safety and driving law.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No penalty ceiling and no Chapter 537 diversion analysis applies to poppers within this two ordinance question, because it is not a single scheduled drug classification under either ordinance. There is accordingly no article to quote, since the articles that carry the ceilings, Chapter 101 article 22 and Chapter 31 article 120A, operate on scheduled drugs. Other Maltese legislation may impose its own consequences and was not read for this row.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances for poppers, because neither schedules it, and there is no control here for a prescription to lift. The two ordinance question is the wrong question to ask about this item. Whatever rules govern it in Malta sit in other legislation, which was not read for this row, and the dossier says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Nothing in this cell should be read as saying the item is unregulated.
Documentation: Nothing in the two Maltese drug ordinances tells you what to carry for poppers, because neither of them schedules it, and a carriage requirement is something a drug control imposes. That is the carriage answer and it is a narrow one: other Maltese legislation governing this item was not read for this row and may impose requirements of its own, including at the border. Read this as the drug schedules having nothing to say rather than as a clearance. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Poppers, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · outside the two ordinance scheduled drug classification · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs pregabalin is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for Pregabalin records that the source searched for 'pregabalin', '3-isobutyl GABA', and 'Lyrica'; none appears in Chapters 31 or 101. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for pregabalin in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for pregabalin was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for pregabalin, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Pregabalin, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Psilocybin is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Psilocybin sits in Part A of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "PSILOCYBINE". Psilocybin is expressly listed under the spelling 'PSILOCYBINE' in Part A. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life, and it is the Part A ceiling. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i) permits life imprisonment for dealing or for possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor. Psilocybin is in Part A of the Third Schedule, which is the tier that carries it; Part B of the same schedule carries ten years instead, under article 120A(2)(a)(ii). The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower than the Criminal Court ceilings, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case, so the life figure is the statutory maximum exposure rather than the expected sentence. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls psilocybin is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term Psilocybin. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if psilocybin was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Psilocybin, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part A · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Quetiapine

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs quetiapine is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for Quetiapine records that the source searched for 'quetiapine', 'Seroquel', and its dibenzothiazepine name; no entry appears in the two drug schedules. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for quetiapine in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for quetiapine was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for quetiapine, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Quetiapine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Salvia divinorum

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs salvia divinorum is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for Salvia divinorum records that the source searched for 'Salvia divinorum', 'salvinorin A', and 'salvinorin'; none appears in the consolidated texts. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for salvia divinorum in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for salvia divinorum was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for salvia divinorum, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Salvia divinorum, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs scopolamine is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for Scopolamine records that the source searched for 'scopolamine', 'hyoscine', and 'Devil's Breath'; none appears in Chapters 31 or 101. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for scopolamine in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for scopolamine was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for scopolamine, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Scopolamine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Synthetic cannabinoids are controlled directly as a category by Chapter 101, the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, while Chapter 31 Part A and Part B also name numerous individual synthetic cannabinoids. Synthetic cannabinoids are governed by both Maltese drug ordinances, which is the uncommon case. Malta runs two drug ordinances and an answer from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Here the answer is that the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, reaches it through article 2 and Parts II and III of the Fifth Schedule, covering psychoactive and synthetic cannabinoids, and the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, reaches named entries of this family through its Third Schedule. Penalties therefore run through article 22 of Chapter 101 or article 120A of Chapter 31 depending on which limb catches the particular compound. The relevant text reads Synthetic cannabinoids "shall be deemed to constitute a prohibited drug punishable in the same manner and to the same extent as offences relating to cannabis". Chapter 101 says synthetic cannabinoids are prohibited and punishable in the same manner as cannabis offences, so the plant cannabis allowances are not available for them. The power to amend the Fifth Schedule is article 34(3), which lets the Minister responsible for the cannabis authority classify non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids, psychoactive cannabinoids and synthetic cannabinoids by regulation.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life. A controlled synthetic or psychotropic cannabinoid offence can reach life under article 22 of Chapter 101 or under article 120A of Chapter 31 where Part A applies, so which ordinance supplies the ceiling depends on which limb catches the particular compound, but the ceiling itself is life either way. The plant cannabis allowances are not available to synthetic cannabinoids. The seven gram personal possession exclusion in Chapter 537 article 4A is written for cannabis and is not assumed here, and Chapter 101 provides that synthetic cannabinoids are punishable in the same manner as cannabis offences rather than benefiting from the cannabis allowances. The general Chapter 537 article 4 route applies only if the substance is a prohibited drug, the amount is ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’, and the personal use circumstances are satisfied. The penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’.
If prescribed / medical: Both ordinances reach synthetic cannabinoids. The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, catches it through the Fifth Schedule and the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, catches named entries of the family through its Third Schedule, so which one answers a prescription question depends on the particular compound. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Article 22 of Chapter 101 and article 120A of Chapter 31 alike reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. No therapeutic use is identified for this compound in either schedule, so there is no medical form of it for a route to attach to on the face of these texts. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Synthetic cannabinoids itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if synthetic cannabinoids were dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Synthetic cannabinoids, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Cap. 101 art. 2 and Fifth Schedule Parts II-III · Cap. 31 Third Schedule (named entries) · penalty arts. 22 / 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated October 8, 2026

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THC-P

Legal status: THC-P is expressly listed in Chapter 31 Part A and Chapter 101 Fifth Schedule Part III as a synthetic cannabinoid. THC-P is governed by both Maltese drug ordinances, which is the uncommon case. Malta runs two drug ordinances and an answer from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Here the answer is that the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, reaches it through article 2 and Parts II and III of the Fifth Schedule, covering psychoactive and synthetic cannabinoids, and the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, reaches named entries of this family through its Third Schedule. Penalties therefore run through article 22 of Chapter 101 or article 120A of Chapter 31 depending on which limb catches the particular compound. The relevant text reads «THC-P, tetrahydrocannabiphorol, Delta-9-THCP». Chapter 101 says synthetic cannabinoids are prohibited and punishable in the same manner as cannabis offences, so the plant cannabis allowances are not available for them. The power to amend the Fifth Schedule is article 34(3), which lets the Minister responsible for the cannabis authority classify non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids, psychoactive cannabinoids and synthetic cannabinoids by regulation.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling is life. A controlled synthetic or psychotropic cannabinoid offence can reach life under article 22 of Chapter 101 or under article 120A of Chapter 31 where Part A applies, so which ordinance supplies the ceiling depends on which limb catches the particular compound, but the ceiling itself is life either way. The plant cannabis allowances are not available to THC-P. The seven gram personal possession exclusion in Chapter 537 article 4A is written for cannabis and is not assumed here, and Chapter 101 provides that synthetic cannabinoids are punishable in the same manner as cannabis offences rather than benefiting from the cannabis allowances. The general Chapter 537 article 4 route applies only if the substance is a prohibited drug, the amount is ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’, and the personal use circumstances are satisfied. The penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’.
If prescribed / medical: Both ordinances reach THC-P. The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, catches it through the Fifth Schedule and the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, catches named entries of the family through its Third Schedule, so which one answers a prescription question depends on the particular compound. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Article 22 of Chapter 101 and article 120A of Chapter 31 alike reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. No therapeutic use is identified for this compound in either schedule, so there is no medical form of it for a route to attach to on the face of these texts. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name THC-P itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if THC-P was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, THC-P, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Cap. 101 art. 2 and Fifth Schedule Parts II-III · Cap. 31 Third Schedule (named entries) · penalty arts. 22 / 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated October 8, 2026

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Tobacco

Legal status: Neither Maltese drug ordinance governs tobacco. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. For this item the answer is that it sits outside both: it is not a single scheduled drug classification under the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, or the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101. The two drug schedules contain no tobacco entry. Tobacco is outside the two controlled-drug ordinances assessed here, while separate tobacco-control legislation is not answered by this dossier. The legislation this row did not read, and which may still govern the item, is named by the source itself: medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product safety and driving law.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No penalty ceiling and no Chapter 537 diversion analysis applies to tobacco within this two ordinance question, because it is not a single scheduled drug classification under either ordinance. There is accordingly no article to quote, since the articles that carry the ceilings, Chapter 101 article 22 and Chapter 31 article 120A, operate on scheduled drugs. Other Maltese legislation may impose its own consequences and was not read for this row.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances for tobacco, because neither schedules it, and there is no control here for a prescription to lift. The two ordinance question is the wrong question to ask about this item. Whatever rules govern it in Malta sit in other legislation, which was not read for this row, and the dossier says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Nothing in this cell should be read as saying the item is unregulated.
Documentation: Nothing in the two Maltese drug ordinances tells you what to carry for tobacco, because neither of them schedules it, and a carriage requirement is something a drug control imposes. That is the carriage answer and it is a narrow one: other Maltese legislation governing this item was not read for this row and may impose requirements of its own, including at the border. Read this as the drug schedules having nothing to say rather than as a clearance. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Tobacco, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · outside the two ordinance scheduled drug classification · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Tramadol

Legal status: Tramadol is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Tramadol sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "TRAMADOL". Tramadol is expressly listed in Part B of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Tramadol is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Tramadol is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls tramadol is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Tramadol itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if tramadol was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Tramadol, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Alprazolam is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Alprazolam sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "DIAZEPAM and other compounds containing the chemical structure of DIHYDRO-1:4 BENZODIAZEPINE or of DIHYDRO-1:5 BENZODIAZEPINE substituted to any degree". Alprazolam falls within the express benzodiazepine structural class in Part B even though its individual name is not printed. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Alprazolam is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Alprazolam is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls alprazolam is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term Alprazolam. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if alprazolam was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Alprazolam, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Xylazine

Legal status: Which Maltese ordinance governs xylazine is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for Xylazine records that the source searched for 'xylazine', 'Rompun', and '2-(2,6-dimethylphenylamino)-4H-1,3-thiazine'; no match appears in either schedule. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for xylazine in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical: No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for xylazine was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation: There is no carriage instruction that follows from these texts for xylazine, because they were searched for it and no entry was verified, and a document requirement is something a control imposes. Carry the prescription if it was dispensed to you, since that is useful whatever the classification turns out to be, and do not read the absence of an instruction as permission. Maltese medicines, pharmacy and product safety law was not read for this row and may impose its own requirements, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle a specific case before you travel. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng and https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Xylazine, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Zolpidem is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Zolpidem sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "ZOLPIDEM". Zolpidem is expressly listed in Part B of Chapter 31's Third Schedule. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Zolpidem is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Zolpidem is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical: The ordinance that controls zolpidem is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry prints the name Zolpidem itself, so there is no argument that the control reaches this substance only by inference, and a product labelled with that name is the listed thing. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
Documentation: Carry the prescription and the dispensing label if zolpidem was dispensed to you, and understand that nothing you can carry makes an undispensed supply lawful in Malta. That is the whole of the carriage answer, because no Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled substance appears in any of the texts read for this row, and none of them carries a travellers provision at all. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists, so a Maltese mission is the place to settle it before you fly rather than the airport on arrival. Keep the medicine in the packaging it was dispensed in, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. The provenance is the consolidated English text of the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31 on Legislation Malta, read on 18 September 2026 at https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/31/eng. The amendment horizon is 18 September 2026, and on that date the consolidated texts stood at Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, and Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025. Legislation Malta prints the footer ‘© Dritt tal-awtur: L-Uffiċċju tal-Avukat tal-Istat’ on each page, no open reuse licence was located, and only the words needed to identify the provision are quoted here.

Malta, Zolpidem, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026

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