Legal status in Mexico

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

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Confirmed legal status

1P-LSD

Legal status: 1P-LSD is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. This row is an acylated form of a printed entry rather than an unrelated molecule. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The lysergide entry gives a full chemical name with no substitution at the indole nitrogen, and whether an N-propionyl derivative is reached turns on a closing paragraph that conditions itself on a determination by the health authority. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: It is sold as a research chemical and has no Mexican medicine form, so the prescription articles do not engage. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. This row is an acylated form of a printed entry rather than an unrelated molecule. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: 1p-lsd 0, propionil 5, lisergida 2 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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2-FDCK

Legal status: 2-FDCK is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The ketamine entry is a bare name with no chemical description, so it cannot be read as covering a fluorinated analogue on its face. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The third group extends to salts, precursors and chemical derivatives of the names it prints, and whether a ring fluorinated analogue is a chemical derivative is not answered in the text. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: The ketamine it is derived from is dispensed in Mexican hospitals under a retained prescription, and this row is dispensed nowhere. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The ketamine entry is a bare name with no chemical description, so it cannot be read as covering a fluorinated analogue on its face. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: 2-fdck 0, fluorodesclorocetamina 0, ketamina 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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25I-NBOMe

Legal status: 25I-NBOMe is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. No N-benzyl phenethylamine is printed in the Act, and the dossier consulted for this cell asserted the opposite. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The dossier assertion of a named entry for this row was tested against the printed group list and no such entry was found, so the dossier outcome is recorded here as refuted rather than repeated. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is sold on blotter that is indistinguishable from a listed substance, which is the practical risk that the listing question does not settle. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. No N-benzyl phenethylamine is printed in the Act, and the dossier consulted for this cell asserted the opposite. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: 25i-nbome 0, nbome 0, 25i 0, metoxibencil 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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2C-B

Legal status: 2C-B is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The first group prints several dimethoxy phenethylamines, and a reader who finds one of them can easily take it for this row. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The closest printed entry is brolamfetamina, given as «2,5-dimetoxi-4-bromoanfetamina.», which carries a bromine in the same position but is an amphetamine and not a phenethylamine. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: No Mexican medicine contains it and none ever has, so no prescription regime attaches to it by any route. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The first group prints several dimethoxy phenethylamines, and a reader who finds one of them can easily take it for this row. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: 2c-b 0, bromoanfetamina 1, fenetilamina 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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2C-E

Legal status: 2C-E is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The Act prints an ethyl substituted entry in the same group, which is the one most likely to be mistaken for this row. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The ethyl entry the group prints is DOET, given as «d1-2,5-dimetoxi-4-etil-α-metilfeniletilamina.», and the alpha methyl in its chemical name is exactly what this row does not have. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It has no therapeutic use anywhere, which is why its absence from the list changes nothing practical about supply. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The Act prints an ethyl substituted entry in the same group, which is the one most likely to be mistaken for this row. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: 2c-e 0, dimetoxi-4-etil 1, doet 7 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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2C-I

Legal status: 2C-I is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. No iodinated phenethylamine of any kind is printed in the Act. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The halogenated entry the group does print is the brominated one, and a halogen substitution is not a printed ground for reading one entry onto another. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: Nothing in the Mexican formulary contains it, so the absence leaves no medicines question open. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. No iodinated phenethylamine of any kind is printed in the Act. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: 2c-i 0, yodo 0, iodo 12 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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2C-T-7

Legal status: 2C-T-7 is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. No sulphur substituted phenethylamine is printed anywhere in the Act. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The trimethoxy entry the group prints is TMA, whose chemical name carries three methoxy groups and no thio substitution at all. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It has never been a medicine, and the fourth group would be the only place a stimulant of low risk could sit. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. No sulphur substituted phenethylamine is printed anywhere in the Act. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: 2c-t-7 0, tio 31, propiltio 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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3-MMC

Legal status: 3-MMC is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. This row differs from a printed entry by the position of a single methyl group on the ring. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The Act prints the para isomer as «MEFEDRONA 4- METILMETCATITONA», and the number in that name is the whole of the difference. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: The isomer the Act does print is not a medicine either, so neither the presence nor the absence creates a supply route. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. This row differs from a printed entry by the position of a single methyl group on the ring. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: 3-mmc 0, metilmetcatinona 0, mefedrona 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · the previous version of this cell noted that some secondary compilations treat article 245 as picking up the 1971 Convention schedules or whole chemical classes, and that note is carried forward, not re-derived, and not adopted: no provision of the Act read here does either · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: 4-acetoxy-DMT is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. This row is an ester of a printed entry rather than a separate molecule with no relation to the list. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The group prints psilocin as the 4-hydroxy compound and psilocybin as its phosphate ester, and whether a third ester of the same alcohol is reached turns on a closing paragraph that conditions itself on a determination by the health authority. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: It is sold as a research chemical rather than dispensed, and the entries it is related to have no supply route either. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. This row is an ester of a printed entry rather than a separate molecule with no relation to the list. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: 4-acetoxy-dmt 0, 4-aco-dmt 0, acetoxi 5, psilocina 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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4-HO-MET

Legal status: 4-HO-MET is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The group prints one 4-hydroxy tryptamine and this row is a different one. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. Psilocin is printed as «PSILOCINA, PSILOTSINA 3-(2-dimetilaminoetil) -4-hidroxi-indol.», and the dimethylamino in that chemical name is what this row replaces. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It has no medicine form, and the tryptamine it most resembles is in the prohibited first group. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The group prints one 4-hydroxy tryptamine and this row is a different one. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: 4-ho-met 0, hidroxi-indol 1, metiletiltriptamina 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: 5-MeO-DMT is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The tryptamine entries in the group are unsubstituted on the indole ring, and this row is methoxylated on it. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The dossier consulted for this cell asserted a named entry for this row; the printed group list does not contain one, and the assertion is recorded here as refuted. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: Its natural sources are animal and plant rather than pharmaceutical, so no prescription route exists for it here. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The tryptamine entries in the group are unsubstituted on the indole ring, and this row is methoxylated on it. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: 5-meo-dmt 0, metoxi-dimetiltriptamina 0, dmt 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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6-APB

Legal status: 6-APB is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. No benzofuran is printed anywhere in the Act. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The methylenedioxy amphetamine the group does print carries a dioxole ring rather than a furan, and the two rings are not treated as interchangeable by anything in the text. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: Nothing in the Mexican formulary contains a benzofuran of this kind. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. No benzofuran is printed anywhere in the Act. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: 6-apb 0, benzofurano 0, apb 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)

Legal status: 7-hydroxymitragynine is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. This row is a metabolite of a substance that is itself absent from the Act, so neither end of the pair is printed. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. Where the Act means to reach a metabolite it prints it, as it does with normorphine and nordazepam. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is a metabolite rather than a product, and nothing is dispensed under its name. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. This row is a metabolite of a substance that is itself absent from the Act, so neither end of the pair is printed. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: 7-hydroxymitragynine 0, hidroximitraginina 0, 7-hidroxi 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Controlled through the names the Act does print rather than through the brand. The brand is not named in article 234 or in any of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, while the second group prints «ANFETAMINA.» and «DEXTROANFETAMINA (DEXANFETAMINA).». The brand is a mixture of four amphetamine salts and the Act names none of them as a product. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018». The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by what is actually present rather than by the name. The second group prints the racemate and the dextro isomer separately, and the group also reaches salts, precursors and chemical derivatives. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: Its constituents are prescribed in Mexico under their own names, and a foreign pack labelled with the brand does not match any Mexican prescription. No single prescription answer attaches to this row, because the Act answers the names it prints and not the category. Where a named constituent is present, that constituent's own group decides the rule: articles 240 onward for an estupefaciente, article 248 for the first group of article 245, article 251 for the third and article 252 for the fourth. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of the category name, because the category is not what articles 234 and 245 of the Ley General de Salud read. Identify what is actually present and carry its prescription and labelled packaging if it has one. The brand is a mixture of four amphetamine salts and the Act names none of them as a product. The printed entries relied on for this row were read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, answered through the names Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 do print, not through this row's own name · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: adderall 0, anfetamina 9, dextroanfetamina 1, dexanfetamina 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Alcohol

Legal status: Alcohol is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. This row is regulated elsewhere in the same Act rather than as a controlled drug. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The Ley General de Salud carries a whole programme against alcoholism and a sanitary control regime for alcoholic drinks, and neither of those sits in the narcotics or psychotropics articles. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: Its supply is governed by the sanitary control of alcoholic drinks and by the alcoholism programme, neither of which is a prescription regime. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. This row is regulated elsewhere in the same Act rather than as a controlled drug. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: alcohol 103, alcoholismo 20, bebidas alcoholicas 24 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Amanita muscaria

Legal status: Amanita muscaria is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The first group does print a mushroom cell, and reading it carefully is what decides this row rather than the word mushroom alone. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The mushroom cell the first group prints is the second column of the psilocybin entry and names hallucinogenic mushrooms as an alternative common name for psilocybin, so whether a mushroom whose actives are muscimol and ibotenic acid rather than psilocybin falls inside it is not settled. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: It is sold dried as a novelty and has no medicine form, so nothing turns on a prescription for it. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The first group does print a mushroom cell, and reading it carefully is what decides this row rather than the word mushroom alone. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: amanita muscaria 0, amanita 0, muscaria 0, muscimol 0, hongos 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Amphetamine is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the second of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen algún valor terapéutico, pero constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». The list there prints «ANFETAMINA.». The Act prints the racemate and the dextro isomer as two separate entries in the same group rather than as one entry with isomers. Article 250 subjects that second group to the narcotics chapter of the same title, so its prescribing follows articles 240 to 243. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. The fourth group prints benzofetamina, so not every amphetamine derivative sits in the second group. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: Products containing it are prescribed in Mexico for attention disorders, and the special form and the thirty day limit are what govern them. Article 250 places the second group of article 245 under the narcotics chapter of the same title, «Las substancias psicotrópicas incluidas en la fracción II del artículo 245 de esta Ley, así como las que se prevean en las disposiciones aplicables o en las listas a que se refiere el artículo 246, cuando se trate del grupo a que se refiere la misma fracción, quedarán sujetas en lo conducente, a las disposiciones del Capítulo V de este Título». In practice that means the special prescription forms of article 241, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», and treatments of no more than thirty days. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. That is the same regime articles 240 onward set for estupefacientes, applied to a psychotropic.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The Act prints the racemate and the dextro isomer as two separate entries in the same group rather than as one entry with isomers. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the second group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: amphetamine 0, anfetamina 9, dextroanfetamina 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: Amyl nitrite is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. No nitrite ester appears in either list. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The inhalants provision in article 254 is administrative and produces sanctions against establishments rather than a drug offence against a person, and the decree published on 15 January 2026 left it untouched. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It once had a cardiac and an antidote use, and neither survives in Mexican practice under this name. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. No nitrite ester appears in either list. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: amyl nitrite 0, nitrito de amilo 0, nitrito 0, amilo 3 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Controlled to the extent of the molecule the Act does name. The brew is not named in article 234 or in any of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, while the first group prints «DMT n,n-dimetiltriptamina.». The brew is not printed in the Act, and neither of the plants it is made from is printed either, while the tryptamine it contains is. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018». The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by what is actually present rather than by the name. Whether a preparation containing a named substance is itself reached turns on the closing paragraph of the first group, which conditions its own reach on a determination by the health authority. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: It is consumed as a brew rather than dispensed, so the prescription articles have no product to attach to whatever the brew contains. No single prescription answer attaches to this row, because the Act answers the names it prints and not the category. Where a named constituent is present, that constituent's own group decides the rule: articles 240 onward for an estupefaciente, article 248 for the first group of article 245, article 251 for the third and article 252 for the fourth. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of the category name, because the category is not what articles 234 and 245 of the Ley General de Salud read. Identify what is actually present and carry its prescription and labelled packaging if it has one. The brew is not printed in the Act, and neither of the plants it is made from is printed either, while the tryptamine it contains is. The printed entries relied on for this row were read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, answered through the names Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 do print, not through this row's own name · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: ayahuasca 0, banisteriopsis 0, harmalina 0, dmt 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Barbiturates

Legal status: Controlled member by member, across three different groups. Article 245 of the Ley General de Salud prints «AMOBARBITAL.», «BARBITAL.» and «ACIDO BARBITURICO (2, 4, 6 TRIHIDROXIPIRAMIDINA)», and a barbiturate none of those groups prints is not named in the Act at all. The barbiturates are split across three of the five groups, with amobarbital, cyclobarbital, heptabarbital, pentobarbital and secobarbital in the second and the rest in the fourth. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018». The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by what is actually present rather than by the name. Barbituric acid itself is printed in the third group, so the parent compound and its derivatives carry different prescription rules. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: The group a given barbiturate sits in decides its rule, so two barbiturates in one wash bag can carry two different regimes. No single prescription answer attaches to this row, because the Act answers the names it prints and not the category. Where a named constituent is present, that constituent's own group decides the rule: articles 240 onward for an estupefaciente, article 248 for the first group of article 245, article 251 for the third and article 252 for the fourth. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of the category name, because the category is not what articles 234 and 245 of the Ley General de Salud read. Identify what is actually present and carry its prescription and labelled packaging if it has one. The barbiturates are split across three of the five groups, with amobarbital, cyclobarbital, heptabarbital, pentobarbital and secobarbital in the second and the rest in the fourth. The printed entries relied on for this row were read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, answered through the names Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 do print, not through this row's own name · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: barbiturates 0, barbital 15, barbiturico 4, secobarbital 2 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled member by member. The third group of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud prints «BENZODIAZEPINAS:», «ANFEBUTAMONA (BUPROPIÓN)» and «TRAMADOL» over a run of individual names, and a benzodiazepine that run does not print is not named in the Act at all. The third group does print the word as a heading, which is unusual, but the run beneath it also contains ephedrine, ergotamine, clozapine and risperidone, none of which is a benzodiazepine. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018». The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. Two of the three changes this row relies on, «ANFEBUTAMONA (BUPROPIÓN)» and «TRAMADOL», are among those ten. That inclusion did not take effect with the rest of the Decree. Transitorio Primero reads «El presente Decreto entrará en vigor al día siguiente de su publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación.», and Transitorio Segundo carves ten named substances out of that: «La inclusión en las clasificaciones previstas en el artículo 245 de esta Ley de las siguientes substancias: CATINA, DIHIDROERGOCRISTINA, NICERGOLINA, NORPSEUDOEFEDRINA, PSEUDOEFEDRINA, ANFEBUTAMONA (BUPROPIÓN), TRAMADOL, ACIDO GAMMA HIDROXIBUTIRICO (GHB), BENZQUINAMIDA, GAMMA BUTIROLACTONA (GBL), entrará en vigor a los ciento ochenta días naturales siguientes a la publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación del presente Decreto.». The hundred and eightieth natural day after publication on 15 January 2026 is 14 July 2026, so the inclusion took effect on that date and has been in force for sixty nine days as this cell is written.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by what is actually present rather than by the name. The decree published on 15 January 2026 made that plainer still: it added bupropion and tramadol to the same group and removed pseudoephedrine from it, and none of the three is a benzodiazepine either. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: The retained prescription rule applies to each printed member, and a traveller carrying an unlisted one is outside the rule rather than protected by it. No single prescription answer attaches to this row, because the Act answers the names it prints and not the category. Where a named constituent is present, that constituent's own group decides the rule: articles 240 onward for an estupefaciente, article 248 for the first group of article 245, article 251 for the third and article 252 for the fourth. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of the category name, because the category is not what articles 234 and 245 of the Ley General de Salud read. Identify what is actually present and carry its prescription and labelled packaging if it has one. The third group does print the word as a heading, which is unusual, but the run beneath it also contains ephedrine, ergotamine, clozapine and risperidone, none of which is a benzodiazepine. The printed entries relied on for this row were read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, answered through the names Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 do print, not through this row's own name · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: benzodiazepines 0, benzodiazepinas 1, brotizolam 1, midazolam 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the inclusion relied on for this row was deferred by Transitorio Segundo of that decree to the hundred and eightieth natural day after publication, which is 14 July 2026, while Transitorio Primero brought the rest of the decree into force the day after publication · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Buprenorphine is named in Mexican law as an estupefaciente. Article 234 of the Ley General de Salud opens «Para los efectos de esta Ley, se consideran estupefacientes» and prints the entry «BUPRENORFINA.». The entry is a bare name with no chemical description at all, which is unusual in an article that gives chemical names for almost everything. Article 235 then makes every act with an estupefaciente, prescription included, subject to authorisation by the Secretaria de Salud. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. It appears a second time in article 239, in the list of seized substances the health authority must be notified of. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: It is used both for pain and for substitution, and the bare entry means the Act draws no distinction between the two uses. Only the professionals article 240 of the Ley General de Salud names may prescribe an estupefaciente, and they must hold a registered title. Article 241 requires special prescription forms carrying a barcode assigned by the Secretaria de Salud, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», for treatments of no more than thirty days. Article 242 makes the pharmacy take up the prescription, enter it in the estupefacientes ledger and surrender it to authorised personnel on request. Those are the duties articles 240 onward impose, and they are the heaviest prescription regime the Act has. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The entry is a bare name with no chemical description at all, which is unusual in an article that gives chemical names for almost everything. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the estupefacientes list at Ley General de Salud article 234 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: buprenorphine 0, buprenorfina 2 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Caffeine

Legal status: Caffeine is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. It was printed in the fourth group of article 245 until the decree published on 15 January 2026, which reprinted that group whole and left this row out of it. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The live cell said articles 234 and 245 of the Ley General de Salud do not reach this row, and against the text consolidated to 7 June 2024 the second half of that was wrong, because the fourth group of article 245 then printed the entry; the 15 January 2026 reform has since removed it, so the live statement is right again and is confirmed here rather than corrected.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The entry the decree dropped was printed simply as «CAFEINA»; the live cell said this row was outside the drug-control scheme, the group list as consolidated to 7 June 2024 contradicted that, and the 2026 reform has made the live statement right again. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: Nothing turns on a prescription for it now, and the fourth group rule that once did apply to it was taken away together with the entry itself. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. It was printed in the fourth group of article 245 until the decree published on 15 January 2026, which reprinted that group whole and left this row out of it. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: caffeine 0, cafeina 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cannabinol

Legal status: Cannabinol is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The isomer list the Act prints is a closed enumeration of tetrahydrocannabinol isomers, and this row is a fully aromatic cannabinoid that is not on it. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The article 234 cannabis entry reaches the plant, its resin, its preparations and its seeds, so material from the plant is reached by that entry whatever this row's own status. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It occurs in aged cannabis material rather than being dispensed, so the supply question is answered by the plant entry rather than by this row. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The isomer list the Act prints is a closed enumeration of tetrahydrocannabinol isomers, and this row is a fully aromatic cannabinoid that is not on it. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: cannabinol 6, canabinol 0, tetrahidrocannabinol 6 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Cannabis is named in Mexican law as an estupefaciente. Article 234 of the Ley General de Salud opens «Para los efectos de esta Ley, se consideran estupefacientes» and prints the entry «CANNABIS sativa, índica y americana o mariguana, su resina, preparados y semillas.». The entry names the plant, its resin, its preparations and its seeds, so the seed is inside the entry and not outside it. Article 235 then makes every act with an estupefaciente, prescription included, subject to authorisation by the Secretaria de Salud. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. Article 245 carries the tetrahidrocannabinol isomers separately, so plant and molecule are answered by two different articles.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. The tetrahidrocannabinol entries in article 245 turn on a one per cent threshold, and the plant entry in article 234 has no threshold at all. Article 479 gives this row a line of its own, «Cannabis Sativa, Indica o Mariguana 5 gr.», and article 473 defines the tabla as «Tabla: la relación de narcóticos y la orientación de dosis máximas de consumo personal e inmediato prevista en el artículo 479 de esta Ley». Article 478 is a conditional no-prosecution rule and not a legal allowance, «El Ministerio Público no ejercerá acción penal por el delito previsto en el artículo anterior, en contra de quien sea farmacodependiente o consumidor y posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla, en igual o inferior cantidad a la prevista en la misma, para su estricto consumo personal». At or below the table amount, for strict immediate personal consumption and outside the protected places article 475 refers to, the prosecutor does not bring the article 477 case. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. Article 476 sets three to six years of prison for possession for the purpose of commerce or supply. Its fine is eighty to three hundred dias multa. Above one thousand times the table amount the Codigo Penal Federal applies. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: Its medicinal derivatives have their own regulation made in 2021 under article 235 bis, which sits outside the prescription articles. Only the professionals article 240 of the Ley General de Salud names may prescribe an estupefaciente, and they must hold a registered title. Article 241 requires special prescription forms carrying a barcode assigned by the Secretaria de Salud, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», for treatments of no more than thirty days. Article 242 makes the pharmacy take up the prescription, enter it in the estupefacientes ledger and surrender it to authorised personnel on request. Those are the duties articles 240 onward impose, and they are the heaviest prescription regime the Act has. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The entry names the plant, its resin, its preparations and its seeds, so the seed is inside the entry and not outside it. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the estupefacientes list at Ley General de Salud article 234 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: cannabis 8, mariguana 2, marihuana 4 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Cathinone is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the first of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico escaso o nulo y que, por ser susceptibles de uso indebido o abuso, constituyen un problema especialmente grave para la salud pública». The list there prints «CATINONA NO TIENE (-)-α-aminopropiofenona.». This is the first entry in the group and the Act records that it has no other common name, which is why the chemical name is the only cross-check available. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists for the substances in that first group, and article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The Act numbers its five groups with Roman numerals and this row is in group I, as the live cell had it. The other khat alkaloid, printed there as «CATINA», is one of those ten, so its move into the second group is dated by that transitory article rather than by the Decree at large. That inclusion did not take effect with the rest of the Decree. Transitorio Primero reads «El presente Decreto entrará en vigor al día siguiente de su publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación.», and Transitorio Segundo carves ten named substances out of that: «La inclusión en las clasificaciones previstas en el artículo 245 de esta Ley de las siguientes substancias: CATINA, DIHIDROERGOCRISTINA, NICERGOLINA, NORPSEUDOEFEDRINA, PSEUDOEFEDRINA, ANFEBUTAMONA (BUPROPIÓN), TRAMADOL, ACIDO GAMMA HIDROXIBUTIRICO (GHB), BENZQUINAMIDA, GAMMA BUTIROLACTONA (GBL), entrará en vigor a los ciento ochenta días naturales siguientes a la publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación del presente Decreto.». The hundred and eightieth natural day after publication on 15 January 2026 is 14 July 2026, so the inclusion took effect on that date and has been in force for sixty nine days as this cell is written.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Cathine was moved by the decree published on 15 January 2026 into the second group, so the two khat alkaloids now sit in the first and the second and are three prescription regimes apart. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: The plant alkaloid has no Mexican medicine containing it, while its relative in the fourth group does appear in appetite suppressants. There is no ordinary therapeutic supply route for this group. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists in relation to the substances in the first group of article 245, «Queda prohibido todo acto de los mencionados en el artículo 247 de esta Ley, con relación a las substancias incluidas en la fracción I del artículo 245». Article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research by institutions with a protocol approved by the Secretaria de Salud, «Solamente para fines de investigación científica, la Secretaría de Salud podrá autorizar la adquisición de las substancias psicotrópicas a que se refiere la fracción I del artículo 245». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The special duties articles 240 onward impose run to estupefacientes rather than to this group, which has no ordinary supply route to regulate.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. This is the first entry in the group and the Act records that it has no other common name, which is why the chemical name is the only cross-check available. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the first group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: cathinone 0, catinona 1, aminopropiofenona 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the inclusion relied on for this row was deferred by Transitorio Segundo of that decree to the hundred and eightieth natural day after publication, which is 14 July 2026, while Transitorio Primero brought the rest of the decree into force the day after publication · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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CBD

Legal status: CBD is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The cannabinoid entries in article 245 are tetrahydrocannabinol isomers and this row is not one of them. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. Article 245 does close with a paragraph allowing products containing cannabis derivatives at or below one per cent of tetrahydrocannabinol to be traded under health regulation, which is a trade rule rather than a listing of this substance. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: Products containing it are sold under the trade rule article 245 ends with, which is a sanitary registration question and not a prescription one. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The cannabinoid entries in article 245 are tetrahydrocannabinol isomers and this row is not one of them. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: cbd 0, canabidiol 0, cannabidiol 0, derivados de la cannabis 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Clonazepam is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the third of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico, pero constituyen un problema para la salud pública». The list there prints «CLONAZEPAM». The Act prints this row between the two chlorinated entries, and the three names differ by only a few letters in Spanish. Article 251 requires a doctor's prescription carrying the prescriber's professional licence number, filled once and retained by the pharmacy. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Clobazam sits immediately above and is a separate entry, so a reader scanning the column can easily take one for the other. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: The rule is the same for it as for the other antiepileptic benzodiazepines the run prints, and the pharmacy keeps the paper in every case. Article 251 governs supply to the public for the third group of article 245: it «requerirán para su venta o suministro al público, receta médica que contenga el número de la cédula profesional del médico que la expida, la que deberá surtirse por una sola vez y retenerse en la farmacia que la surta». So the prescription is filled once, and the pharmacy keeps it. The group also reaches salts, precursors and chemical derivatives, «Y sus sales, precursores y derivados químicos». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The heavier duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes do not apply to this group.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The Act prints this row between the two chlorinated entries, and the three names differ by only a few letters in Spanish. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the third group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: clonazepam 1, clobazam 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Cocaine is named in Mexican law as an estupefaciente. Article 234 of the Ley General de Salud opens «Para los efectos de esta Ley, se consideran estupefacientes» and prints the entry «COCAINA (éster metílico de benzoilecgonina).». The Act prints the molecule, the leaf and the ecgonine esters as three separate entries, so a coca product and cocaine itself are not answered by one line. Article 235 then makes every act with an estupefaciente, prescription included, subject to authorisation by the Secretaria de Salud. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. Article 245, which prints the psychotropics in five groups, does not carry this row, and the live cell cited article 245 alongside article 234 for it.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. The leaf entry is «COCA (hojas de). (erythroxilon novogratense).», and article 237 prohibits the leaf outright while the molecule keeps a therapeutic route. Article 479 gives this row a line of its own, «Cocaína 500 mg.», and article 473 defines the tabla as «Tabla: la relación de narcóticos y la orientación de dosis máximas de consumo personal e inmediato prevista en el artículo 479 de esta Ley». Article 478 is a conditional no-prosecution rule and not a legal allowance, «El Ministerio Público no ejercerá acción penal por el delito previsto en el artículo anterior, en contra de quien sea farmacodependiente o consumidor y posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla, en igual o inferior cantidad a la prevista en la misma, para su estricto consumo personal». At or below the table amount, for strict immediate personal consumption and outside the protected places article 475 refers to, the prosecutor does not bring the article 477 case. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. Article 476 sets three to six years of prison for possession for the purpose of commerce or supply. Its fine is eighty to three hundred dias multa. Above one thousand times the table amount the Codigo Penal Federal applies. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: It survives in Mexican practice only as a topical anaesthetic, and that survival is why the molecule keeps a therapeutic route the leaf does not. Only the professionals article 240 of the Ley General de Salud names may prescribe an estupefaciente, and they must hold a registered title. Article 241 requires special prescription forms carrying a barcode assigned by the Secretaria de Salud, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», for treatments of no more than thirty days. Article 242 makes the pharmacy take up the prescription, enter it in the estupefacientes ledger and surrender it to authorised personnel on request. Those are the duties articles 240 onward impose, and they are the heaviest prescription regime the Act has. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The Act prints the molecule, the leaf and the ecgonine esters as three separate entries, so a coca product and cocaine itself are not answered by one line. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the estupefacientes list at Ley General de Salud article 234 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: cocaine 0, cocaina 3, benzoilecgonina 1, ecgonina 3 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Codeine is named in Mexican law as an estupefaciente. Article 234 of the Ley General de Salud opens «Para los efectos de esta Ley, se consideran estupefacientes» and prints the entry «CODEINA (3-metilmorfina) y sus sales.». The entry expressly extends to the salts, and article 243 then sets a separate regime for preparations containing it that form part of pharmaceutical specialities. Article 235 then makes every act with an estupefaciente, prescription included, subject to authorisation by the Secretaria de Salud. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Dihydrocodeine, acetyldihydrocodeine, ethylmorphine and norcodeine are separate entries, so a codeine derivative is not read into this row. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: Article 243 gives its pharmaceutical preparations a regime of their own, set by the Secretaria de Salud rather than by the article itself. Only the professionals article 240 of the Ley General de Salud names may prescribe an estupefaciente, and they must hold a registered title. Article 241 requires special prescription forms carrying a barcode assigned by the Secretaria de Salud, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», for treatments of no more than thirty days. Article 242 makes the pharmacy take up the prescription, enter it in the estupefacientes ledger and surrender it to authorised personnel on request. Those are the duties articles 240 onward impose, and they are the heaviest prescription regime the Act has. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The entry expressly extends to the salts, and article 243 then sets a separate regime for preparations containing it that form part of pharmaceutical specialities. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the estupefacientes list at Ley General de Salud article 234 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: codeine 0, codeina 15, norcodeina 1, dihidrocodeina 7 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Crack cocaine is named in Mexican law as an estupefaciente. Article 234 of the Ley General de Salud opens «Para los efectos de esta Ley, se consideran estupefacientes» and prints the entry «COCAINA (éster metílico de benzoilecgonina).» and «Cualquier otro producto derivado o preparado que contenga substancias señaladas en la lista anterior, sus precursores químicos y, en general, los de naturaleza análoga y cualquier otra substancia que determine la Secretaría de Salud, a través de la Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios o el Consejo de Salubridad General.». The Act names no smokable form of cocaine: this row reaches the cocaine entry and the closing paragraph of article 234 on derivatives and preparations, which is a reading and is recorded here as one. Article 235 then makes every act with an estupefaciente, prescription included, subject to authorisation by the Secretaria de Salud. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The article 479 table line for the parent substance is «Cocaína 500 mg.», and the live cell carried that figure, so it is carried forward here and attached to the entry it belongs to.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Article 237 prohibits every act with coca in any of its forms, derivatives or preparations, so a second reading would put this row inside the one article of the three that the federal code chapter names by number; whether the article 479 line for cocaine, printed as a weight of the named substance, is read against the base rather than the salt is a further question the table does not answer. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: There is no pharmaceutical form of it at all, so the prescription articles describe a route that cannot exist for this row. Only the professionals article 240 of the Ley General de Salud names may prescribe an estupefaciente, and they must hold a registered title. Article 241 requires special prescription forms carrying a barcode assigned by the Secretaria de Salud, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», for treatments of no more than thirty days. Article 242 makes the pharmacy take up the prescription, enter it in the estupefacientes ledger and surrender it to authorised personnel on request. Those are the duties articles 240 onward impose, and they are the heaviest prescription regime the Act has. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The Act names no smokable form of cocaine: this row reaches the cocaine entry and the closing paragraph of article 234 on derivatives and preparations, which is a reading and is recorded here as one. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the estupefacientes list at Ley General de Salud article 234 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: crack cocaine 0, cocaina 3, preparado 16, derivado 42 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Delta-8-THC is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the second of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen algún valor terapéutico, pero constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». The list there prints «TETRAHIDROCANNABINOL, las que sean o contengan en concentraciones mayores al 1%, los siguientes isómeros: ∆6a (10a), ∆6a (7), ∆7, ∆8, ∆9, ∆10, ∆9 (11) y sus variantes estereoquímicas.» and «TETRAHIDROCANNABINOL, las que sean o contengan en concentraciones iguales o menores al 1%, los siguientes isómeros: ∆6a (10a), ∆6a (7), ∆7, ∆8, ∆9, ∆10, ∆9 (11) y sus variantes estereoquímicas.». This row is named twice and the two printings put it in different groups: the same isomer list appears in the second group above one per cent and in the fourth group at or below one per cent. Article 250 subjects that second group to the narcotics chapter of the same title, so its prescribing follows articles 240 to 243. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The live cell gave this row's prescription position as group I; the printed list puts it in the second group above one per cent and the fourth at or below, and that placement is corrected here.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. The decree published on 15 January 2026 reprinted both groups and reprinted that isomer list unchanged, so the one per cent split survives the reform intact. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: Which prescription rule applies to a cannabis product turns on the one per cent line, and the same isomer sits in two different groups on either side of it. Article 250 places the second group of article 245 under the narcotics chapter of the same title, «Las substancias psicotrópicas incluidas en la fracción II del artículo 245 de esta Ley, así como las que se prevean en las disposiciones aplicables o en las listas a que se refiere el artículo 246, cuando se trate del grupo a que se refiere la misma fracción, quedarán sujetas en lo conducente, a las disposiciones del Capítulo V de este Título». In practice that means the special prescription forms of article 241, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», and treatments of no more than thirty days. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. That is the same regime articles 240 onward set for estupefacientes, applied to a psychotropic.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. This row is named twice and the two printings put it in different groups: the same isomer list appears in the second group above one per cent and in the fourth group at or below one per cent. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the second group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: delta-8-thc 0, tetrahidrocannabinol 6, isomeros 6, estereoquimicas 5 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Diazepam

Legal status: Diazepam is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the third of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico, pero constituyen un problema para la salud pública». The list there prints «DIAZEPAM». The entry is a bare name with no chemical description, so identity has to be established outside the Act. Article 251 requires a doctor's prescription carrying the prescriber's professional licence number, filled once and retained by the pharmacy. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Its active metabolite is printed separately as nordazepam, which means a metabolite is not assumed into the parent entry. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: Its metabolite is separately listed, which means a metabolite product would carry the rule in its own right rather than by extension. Article 251 governs supply to the public for the third group of article 245: it «requerirán para su venta o suministro al público, receta médica que contenga el número de la cédula profesional del médico que la expida, la que deberá surtirse por una sola vez y retenerse en la farmacia que la surta». So the prescription is filled once, and the pharmacy keeps it. The group also reaches salts, precursors and chemical derivatives, «Y sus sales, precursores y derivados químicos». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The heavier duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes do not apply to this group.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The entry is a bare name with no chemical description, so identity has to be established outside the Act. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the third group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: diazepam 2, nordazepam 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: DMT is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the first of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico escaso o nulo y que, por ser susceptibles de uso indebido o abuso, constituyen un problema especialmente grave para la salud pública». The list there prints «DMT n,n-dimetiltriptamina.». The Act gives this row no international non-proprietary name and identifies it only by the common abbreviation and the chemical name. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists for the substances in that first group, and article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The Act numbers its five groups with Roman numerals and this row is in group I, as the live cell had it.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Diethyltryptamine is printed two lines above with the same structure of entry, and the two tryptamines are separate rows. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: A plant preparation containing it is not a medicine under this Act, and no Mexican pharmacopoeia entry exists to hang a prescription on. There is no ordinary therapeutic supply route for this group. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists in relation to the substances in the first group of article 245, «Queda prohibido todo acto de los mencionados en el artículo 247 de esta Ley, con relación a las substancias incluidas en la fracción I del artículo 245». Article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research by institutions with a protocol approved by the Secretaria de Salud, «Solamente para fines de investigación científica, la Secretaría de Salud podrá autorizar la adquisición de las substancias psicotrópicas a que se refiere la fracción I del artículo 245». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The special duties articles 240 onward impose run to estupefacientes rather than to this group, which has no ordinary supply route to regulate.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The Act gives this row no international non-proprietary name and identifies it only by the common abbreviation and the chemical name. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the first group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: dmt 1, dimetiltriptamina 1, triptamina 2 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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DOM

Legal status: DOM is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the first of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico escaso o nulo y que, por ser susceptibles de uso indebido o abuso, constituyen un problema especialmente grave para la salud pública». The list there prints «STP, DOM 2-amino-1-(2,5 dimetoxi-4-metil) fenilpropano.». The Act prints this row under two abbreviations at once and gives the chemical name as a propane rather than as a phenethylamine. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists for the substances in that first group, and article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The Act numbers its five groups with Roman numerals and this row is in group I, as the live cell had it.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. DOB and DOET are separate entries in the same group, and none of the three reaches the others. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: It has never had a Mexican marketing authorisation, so the question of which prescription form applies does not arise. There is no ordinary therapeutic supply route for this group. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists in relation to the substances in the first group of article 245, «Queda prohibido todo acto de los mencionados en el artículo 247 de esta Ley, con relación a las substancias incluidas en la fracción I del artículo 245». Article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research by institutions with a protocol approved by the Secretaria de Salud, «Solamente para fines de investigación científica, la Secretaría de Salud podrá autorizar la adquisición de las substancias psicotrópicas a que se refiere la fracción I del artículo 245». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The special duties articles 240 onward impose run to estupefacientes rather than to this group, which has no ordinary supply route to regulate.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The Act prints this row under two abbreviations at once and gives the chemical name as a propane rather than as a phenethylamine. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the first group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: dom 24, stp 1, dimetoxi-4-metil 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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DXM

Legal status: DXM is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The estupefacientes list prints several morphinan entries whose Spanish names begin with the same syllables as this row. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. Levometorfan and racemetorfan are printed there and are the optical relatives of this substance, and the dextro isomer used in cough medicine is not among them. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is sold in Mexican pharmacies in cough preparations without any of the controls the listed morphinans carry. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The estupefacientes list prints several morphinan entries whose Spanish names begin with the same syllables as this row. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: dxm 0, dextrometorfano 0, levometorfan 1, racemetorfan 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Ephedrine is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the third of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico, pero constituyen un problema para la salud pública». The list there prints «EFEDRINA» and «PSEUDOEFEDRINA.». This row is printed inside the run the Act heads as benzodiazepines even though it is not one, which is the clearest sign in the Act that the heading is a label and not a class rule. Article 251 requires a doctor's prescription carrying the prescriber's professional licence number, filled once and retained by the pharmacy. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The live cell placed this row in article 234 and called it a psychotropic in the same sentence; article 234 prints the estupefacientes and does not carry it, so the article is corrected here to 245 and the characterisation is kept. The entry this row is contrasted with, «PSEUDOEFEDRINA», is one of those ten, and it is its inclusion in the second group that the transitory article defers rather than its removal from the third. That inclusion did not take effect with the rest of the Decree. Transitorio Primero reads «El presente Decreto entrará en vigor al día siguiente de su publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación.», and Transitorio Segundo carves ten named substances out of that: «La inclusión en las clasificaciones previstas en el artículo 245 de esta Ley de las siguientes substancias: CATINA, DIHIDROERGOCRISTINA, NICERGOLINA, NORPSEUDOEFEDRINA, PSEUDOEFEDRINA, ANFEBUTAMONA (BUPROPIÓN), TRAMADOL, ACIDO GAMMA HIDROXIBUTIRICO (GHB), BENZQUINAMIDA, GAMMA BUTIROLACTONA (GBL), entrará en vigor a los ciento ochenta días naturales siguientes a la publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación del presente Decreto.». The hundred and eightieth natural day after publication on 15 January 2026 is 14 July 2026, so the inclusion took effect on that date and has been in force for sixty nine days as this cell is written.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. The decree published on 15 January 2026 took pseudoephedrine out of that run and moved it to the second group, so the two ephedra alkaloids no longer share a group or a prescription rule. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: Its listing is a precursor control as much as a medicine control, which is why pseudoephedrine sits three lines below it in the same run. Article 251 governs supply to the public for the third group of article 245: it «requerirán para su venta o suministro al público, receta médica que contenga el número de la cédula profesional del médico que la expida, la que deberá surtirse por una sola vez y retenerse en la farmacia que la surta». So the prescription is filled once, and the pharmacy keeps it. The group also reaches salts, precursors and chemical derivatives, «Y sus sales, precursores y derivados químicos». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The heavier duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes do not apply to this group.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. This row is printed inside the run the Act heads as benzodiazepines even though it is not one, which is the clearest sign in the Act that the heading is a label and not a class rule. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the third group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: ephedrine 0, efedrina 7, pseudoefedrina 4 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the inclusion relied on for this row was deferred by Transitorio Segundo of that decree to the hundred and eightieth natural day after publication, which is 14 July 2026, while Transitorio Primero brought the rest of the decree into force the day after publication · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Etizolam

Legal status: Etizolam is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. This row is a thienodiazepine, and the run headed benzodiazepines in the third group does not print it. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. Brotizolam, which is also a thienodiazepine, is printed in that run, so the Act does reach this chemical family when it chooses to name a member of it. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is a prescription hypnotic in some countries, which makes its absence from the Mexican list a real trap for a traveller carrying it. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. This row is a thienodiazepine, and the run headed benzodiazepines in the third group does not print it. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: etizolam 0, tienodiazepina 0, brotizolam 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Fentanyl is named in Mexican law as an estupefaciente. Article 234 of the Ley General de Salud opens «Para los efectos de esta Ley, se consideran estupefacientes» and prints the entry «FENTANIL (1-fenetil-4-n-propionilanilinopiperidina).». The Act spells this row without a final vowel, as fentanil, which is why a search for the English spelling returns nothing. Article 235 then makes every act with an estupefaciente, prescription included, subject to authorisation by the Secretaria de Salud. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Alfentanil and sufentanil are separate entries, and no other fentanyl analogue is printed anywhere in the article. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: Its hospital and patch forms are both inside the entry, and the thirty day limit applies to a patch prescription as to any other. Only the professionals article 240 of the Ley General de Salud names may prescribe an estupefaciente, and they must hold a registered title. Article 241 requires special prescription forms carrying a barcode assigned by the Secretaria de Salud, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», for treatments of no more than thirty days. Article 242 makes the pharmacy take up the prescription, enter it in the estupefacientes ledger and surrender it to authorised personnel on request. Those are the duties articles 240 onward impose, and they are the heaviest prescription regime the Act has. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The Act spells this row without a final vowel, as fentanil, which is why a search for the English spelling returns nothing. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the estupefacientes list at Ley General de Salud article 234 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: fentanyl 0, fentanil 6, alfentanil 2, sufentanil 2 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Gabapentin

Legal status: Gabapentin is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. This row is absent from both lists, as is the pregabalin that shares its mechanism. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. Carbamazepine and valproic acid were printed in the fourth group until the decree published on 15 January 2026 reprinted that group without them, so the group now carries fewer ordinary anticonvulsants than it did. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is prescribed for the same indications and likewise carries no group, unlike the carbamazepine printed in the fourth group. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. This row is absent from both lists, as is the pregabalin that shares its mechanism. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: gabapentin 0, gabapentina 0, carbamazepina 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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GBL

Legal status: GBL is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the fourth of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen amplios usos terapéuticos y constituyen un problema menor para la salud pública». The list there prints «GAMMA BUTIROLACTONA (GBL).». The decree published on 15 January 2026 added this row to the fourth group by name, alongside the substance it converts to in the body. Article 252 allows that prescription to be filled up to three times within six months, and the pharmacy retains it only on the third. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The substance this row is, printed there as «GAMMA BUTIROLACTONA (GBL)», is one of those ten. That inclusion did not take effect with the rest of the Decree. Transitorio Primero reads «El presente Decreto entrará en vigor al día siguiente de su publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación.», and Transitorio Segundo carves ten named substances out of that: «La inclusión en las clasificaciones previstas en el artículo 245 de esta Ley de las siguientes substancias: CATINA, DIHIDROERGOCRISTINA, NICERGOLINA, NORPSEUDOEFEDRINA, PSEUDOEFEDRINA, ANFEBUTAMONA (BUPROPIÓN), TRAMADOL, ACIDO GAMMA HIDROXIBUTIRICO (GHB), BENZQUINAMIDA, GAMMA BUTIROLACTONA (GBL), entrará en vigor a los ciento ochenta días naturales siguientes a la publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación del presente Decreto.». The hundred and eightieth natural day after publication on 15 January 2026 is 14 July 2026, so the inclusion took effect on that date and has been in force for sixty nine days as this cell is written.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. It is the only lactone the Act prints, and it sits in the fourth group rather than with the substances the federal code chapter names. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is an industrial solvent rather than a medicine, so a group whose heading speaks of wide therapeutic use now carries a substance with none, and article 253 covers industrial psychotropic substances separately. Article 252 governs supply to the public for the fourth group of article 245: a doctor's prescription carrying the professional licence number, and «la que podrá surtirse hasta por tres veces, con una vigencia de seis meses, contados a partir de la fecha de su expedición y no requerirá ser retenida por la farmacia que la surta, las primeras dos veces». That is the lightest of the three psychotropic prescription regimes. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes do not apply to this group at all.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The decree published on 15 January 2026 added this row to the fourth group by name, alongside the substance it converts to in the body. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the fourth group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: gbl 0, butirolactona 0, gamma 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · the inclusion relied on for this row was deferred by Transitorio Segundo of that decree to the hundred and eightieth natural day after publication, which is 14 July 2026, while Transitorio Primero brought the rest of the decree into force the day after publication · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: GHB is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the fourth of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen amplios usos terapéuticos y constituyen un problema menor para la salud pública». The list there prints «ACIDO GAMMA HIDROXIBUTIRICO (GHB).». The decree published on 15 January 2026 added this row to the fourth group by name, which is the change that settles a question two earlier readings of this cell got wrong in opposite directions. Article 252 allows that prescription to be filled up to three times within six months, and the pharmacy retains it only on the third. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The substance this row is, printed there as «ACIDO GAMMA HIDROXIBUTIRICO (GHB)», is one of those ten. That inclusion did not take effect with the rest of the Decree. Transitorio Primero reads «El presente Decreto entrará en vigor al día siguiente de su publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación.», and Transitorio Segundo carves ten named substances out of that: «La inclusión en las clasificaciones previstas en el artículo 245 de esta Ley de las siguientes substancias: CATINA, DIHIDROERGOCRISTINA, NICERGOLINA, NORPSEUDOEFEDRINA, PSEUDOEFEDRINA, ANFEBUTAMONA (BUPROPIÓN), TRAMADOL, ACIDO GAMMA HIDROXIBUTIRICO (GHB), BENZQUINAMIDA, GAMMA BUTIROLACTONA (GBL), entrará en vigor a los ciento ochenta días naturales siguientes a la publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación del presente Decreto.». The hundred and eightieth natural day after publication on 15 January 2026 is 14 July 2026, so the inclusion took effect on that date and has been in force for sixty nine days as this cell is written.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. The entry it has always been confused with is «GABOB (ACIDO GAMMA AMINO BETA HIDROXIBUTIRICO).», which is still printed directly above it and is a different molecule with an amino group. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: A sodium oxybate medicine exists in other countries and has no Mexican marketing authorisation, so the new listing regulates a supply route that does not yet exist here. Article 252 governs supply to the public for the fourth group of article 245: a doctor's prescription carrying the professional licence number, and «la que podrá surtirse hasta por tres veces, con una vigencia de seis meses, contados a partir de la fecha de su expedición y no requerirá ser retenida por la farmacia que la surta, las primeras dos veces». That is the lightest of the three psychotropic prescription regimes. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes do not apply to this group at all.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The decree published on 15 January 2026 added this row to the fourth group by name, which is the change that settles a question two earlier readings of this cell got wrong in opposite directions. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the fourth group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: ghb 0, hidroxibutirico 1, oxibato 0, gabob 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the inclusion relied on for this row was deferred by Transitorio Segundo of that decree to the hundred and eightieth natural day after publication, which is 14 July 2026, while Transitorio Primero brought the rest of the decree into force the day after publication · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Heroin is named in Mexican law as an estupefaciente. Article 234 of the Ley General de Salud opens «Para los efectos de esta Ley, se consideran estupefacientes» and prints the entry «HEROINA (diacetilmorfina).». Heroin is one of the few substances the Act both lists and then prohibits absolutely, so the ordinary authorisation route in article 235 is closed for it. Article 235 then makes every act with an estupefaciente, prescription included, subject to authorisation by the Secretaria de Salud. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. Article 245, which prints the psychotropics in five groups, does not carry this row, and the live cell cited article 245 alongside article 234 for it.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Morphine, from which it is made, is listed in the same article and is not prohibited by article 237. Article 479 gives this row a line of its own, «Diacetilmorfina o Heroína 50 mg.», and article 473 defines the tabla as «Tabla: la relación de narcóticos y la orientación de dosis máximas de consumo personal e inmediato prevista en el artículo 479 de esta Ley». Article 478 is a conditional no-prosecution rule and not a legal allowance, «El Ministerio Público no ejercerá acción penal por el delito previsto en el artículo anterior, en contra de quien sea farmacodependiente o consumidor y posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla, en igual o inferior cantidad a la prevista en la misma, para su estricto consumo personal». At or below the table amount, for strict immediate personal consumption and outside the protected places article 475 refers to, the prosecutor does not bring the article 477 case. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. Article 476 sets three to six years of prison for possession for the purpose of commerce or supply. Its fine is eighty to three hundred dias multa. Above one thousand times the table amount the Codigo Penal Federal applies. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: Article 237 closes the therapeutic route entirely, so no prescription form exists for it and article 238 leaves only research. Only the professionals article 240 of the Ley General de Salud names may prescribe an estupefaciente, and they must hold a registered title. Article 241 requires special prescription forms carrying a barcode assigned by the Secretaria de Salud, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», for treatments of no more than thirty days. Article 242 makes the pharmacy take up the prescription, enter it in the estupefacientes ledger and surrender it to authorised personnel on request. Those are the duties articles 240 onward impose, and they are the heaviest prescription regime the Act has. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. Heroin is one of the few substances the Act both lists and then prohibits absolutely, so the ordinary authorisation route in article 235 is closed for it. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the estupefacientes list at Ley General de Salud article 234 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: heroin 3, heroina 3, diacetilmorfina 3 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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HHC

Legal status: HHC is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The isomer list is closed and names seven tetrahydrocannabinol isomers, and a hexahydro compound is not among them. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. Whether a hydrogenated cannabinoid made from plant material is reached by the article 234 cannabis entry, which covers preparations, is a question the text does not answer. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: It reaches consumers in vape and edible products with no medicine authorisation anywhere in Mexico. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The isomer list is closed and names seven tetrahydrocannabinol isomers, and a hexahydro compound is not among them. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: hhc 0, hexahidrocannabinol 0, hexahidro 3 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Hydrocodone is named in Mexican law as an estupefaciente. Article 234 of the Ley General de Salud opens «Para los efectos de esta Ley, se consideran estupefacientes» and prints the entry «HIDROCODONA (dihidrocodeinona).». The chemical description the Act gives is dihydrocodeinone, which is the same stem it uses for oxycodone, so the two entries are told apart only by the hydroxy prefix. Article 235 then makes every act with an estupefaciente, prescription included, subject to authorisation by the Secretaria de Salud. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Article 239 lists this row again among the substances a seizure must be reported for. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: Its combination products are prescribed for cough and pain, and the combination does not take them out of the estupefaciente rules. Only the professionals article 240 of the Ley General de Salud names may prescribe an estupefaciente, and they must hold a registered title. Article 241 requires special prescription forms carrying a barcode assigned by the Secretaria de Salud, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», for treatments of no more than thirty days. Article 242 makes the pharmacy take up the prescription, enter it in the estupefacientes ledger and surrender it to authorised personnel on request. Those are the duties articles 240 onward impose, and they are the heaviest prescription regime the Act has. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The chemical description the Act gives is dihydrocodeinone, which is the same stem it uses for oxycodone, so the two entries are told apart only by the hydroxy prefix. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the estupefacientes list at Ley General de Salud article 234 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: hydrocodone 0, hidrocodona 2, dihidrocodeinona 5 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Ketamine

Legal status: Ketamine is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the third of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico, pero constituyen un problema para la salud pública». The list there prints «KETAMINA». The entry sits in the part of the third group the Act heads as others, below the run of benzodiazepines, so the heading above it does not describe it. Article 251 requires a doctor's prescription carrying the prescriber's professional licence number, filled once and retained by the pharmacy. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. No fluorinated or methoxylated ketamine analogue is printed anywhere in the Act. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: It is a hospital anaesthetic here, so the retained prescription rule bites on a product that is genuinely dispensed. Article 251 governs supply to the public for the third group of article 245: it «requerirán para su venta o suministro al público, receta médica que contenga el número de la cédula profesional del médico que la expida, la que deberá surtirse por una sola vez y retenerse en la farmacia que la surta». So the prescription is filled once, and the pharmacy keeps it. The group also reaches salts, precursors and chemical derivatives, «Y sus sales, precursores y derivados químicos». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The heavier duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes do not apply to this group.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The entry sits in the part of the third group the Act heads as others, below the run of benzodiazepines, so the heading above it does not describe it. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the third group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: ketamine 0, ketamina 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Khat

Legal status: Controlled only through the alkaloids the Act names. The leaf is not named in article 234 or in any of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, while those groups print «CATINONA NO TIENE (-)-α-aminopropiofenona.» and «CATINA.». The leaf is not printed anywhere in the Act, which names molecules, and the two khat alkaloids it does name sit in different groups with different consequences. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018». The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The alkaloid this row turns on, printed there as «CATINA», is one of those ten. That inclusion did not take effect with the rest of the Decree. Transitorio Primero reads «El presente Decreto entrará en vigor al día siguiente de su publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación.», and Transitorio Segundo carves ten named substances out of that: «La inclusión en las clasificaciones previstas en el artículo 245 de esta Ley de las siguientes substancias: CATINA, DIHIDROERGOCRISTINA, NICERGOLINA, NORPSEUDOEFEDRINA, PSEUDOEFEDRINA, ANFEBUTAMONA (BUPROPIÓN), TRAMADOL, ACIDO GAMMA HIDROXIBUTIRICO (GHB), BENZQUINAMIDA, GAMMA BUTIROLACTONA (GBL), entrará en vigor a los ciento ochenta días naturales siguientes a la publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación del presente Decreto.». The hundred and eightieth natural day after publication on 15 January 2026 is 14 July 2026, so the inclusion took effect on that date and has been in force for sixty nine days as this cell is written.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by what is actually present rather than by the name. The decree published on 15 January 2026 moved cathine out of the fourth group, where it had been printed at the end of a run of three names the consolidated text flagged as printed in error, and gave it a line of its own in the second. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: Neither alkaloid is supplied as a medicine in Mexico, and the leaf is not a pharmaceutical form of either of them. No single prescription answer attaches to this row, because the Act answers the names it prints and not the category. Where a named constituent is present, that constituent's own group decides the rule: articles 240 onward for an estupefaciente, article 248 for the first group of article 245, article 251 for the third and article 252 for the fourth. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of the category name, because the category is not what articles 234 and 245 of the Ley General de Salud read. Identify what is actually present and carry its prescription and labelled packaging if it has one. The leaf is not printed anywhere in the Act, which names molecules, and the two khat alkaloids it does name sit in different groups with different consequences. The printed entries relied on for this row were read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, answered through the names Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 do print, not through this row's own name · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: khat 0, catinona 1, catina 1, catha 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the inclusion relied on for this row was deferred by Transitorio Segundo of that decree to the hundred and eightieth natural day after publication, which is 14 July 2026, while Transitorio Primero brought the rest of the decree into force the day after publication · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Kratom

Legal status: Kratom is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The leaf is not printed in the Act and neither of its principal alkaloids is printed either. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The only botanical the first group names is the mushroom cell of the psilocybin entry, and article 234 names poppy, cannabis and coca, so a plant is printed when the Act means to reach it. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is sold as a herbal product in some markets and Mexican medicines regulation has no monograph for it. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The leaf is not printed in the Act and neither of its principal alkaloids is printed either. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: kratom 0, mitragyna 0, speciosa 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Lorazepam is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the third of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico, pero constituyen un problema para la salud pública». The list there prints «LORAZEPAM». The entry is followed immediately by lormetazepam, which differs from it by one syllable and is a separate row. Article 251 requires a doctor's prescription carrying the prescriber's professional licence number, filled once and retained by the pharmacy. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Loflacepato de etilo appears two lines above under a Spanish name most readers will not recognise as a benzodiazepine. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: Its close relative one line below carries the identical rule, so a substitution between them changes nothing about the paperwork. Article 251 governs supply to the public for the third group of article 245: it «requerirán para su venta o suministro al público, receta médica que contenga el número de la cédula profesional del médico que la expida, la que deberá surtirse por una sola vez y retenerse en la farmacia que la surta». So the prescription is filled once, and the pharmacy keeps it. The group also reaches salts, precursors and chemical derivatives, «Y sus sales, precursores y derivados químicos». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The heavier duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes do not apply to this group.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The entry is followed immediately by lormetazepam, which differs from it by one syllable and is a separate row. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the third group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: lorazepam 2, lormetazepam 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: LSA is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The only lysergamide the Act prints by name is the diethylamide, and this row is the unsubstituted amide. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The live cell gave this row's prescription position as group I; no group of article 245 carries it, and that placement is corrected here rather than repeated.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. Ergometrine and ergotamine are printed in the third group and are ergot alkaloids used in medicine, which is a different placement with a different prescription rule. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: The seeds that contain it are sold as ornamental seed rather than as medicine, while the ergot alkaloids that are listed are genuine obstetric drugs. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The only lysergamide the Act prints by name is the diethylamide, and this row is the unsubstituted amide. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: lsa 30, ergina 0, amida del acido lisergico 0, ergometrina 3 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: LSD is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the first of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico escaso o nulo y que, por ser susceptibles de uso indebido o abuso, constituyen un problema especialmente grave para la salud pública». The list there prints «(+)-LISERGIDA LSD, LSD-25 (+)-n,n-dietilisergamida-(dietilamida del ácido d-lisérgico).». The Act prints this row twice, once as a psychotropic entry and once as one of the eight lines of the article 479 table, and the two printings use different spellings of the same name. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists for the substances in that first group, and article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The Act numbers its five groups with Roman numerals and this row is in group I, which is where the live cell placed it.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. The neighbouring lysergamide names in the Act are the ergot alkaloids of fraccion III, and they are precursors rather than this molecule. Article 479 gives this row a line of its own, «Lisergida (LSD) 0.015 mg.», and article 473 defines the tabla as «Tabla: la relación de narcóticos y la orientación de dosis máximas de consumo personal e inmediato prevista en el artículo 479 de esta Ley». Article 478 is a conditional no-prosecution rule and not a legal allowance, «El Ministerio Público no ejercerá acción penal por el delito previsto en el artículo anterior, en contra de quien sea farmacodependiente o consumidor y posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla, en igual o inferior cantidad a la prevista en la misma, para su estricto consumo personal». At or below the table amount, for strict immediate personal consumption and outside the protected places article 475 refers to, the prosecutor does not bring the article 477 case. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. Article 476 sets three to six years of prison for possession for the purpose of commerce or supply. Its fine is eighty to three hundred dias multa. Above one thousand times the table amount the Codigo Penal Federal applies. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: Nothing in the Act contemplates a medicine containing this substance, so there is no prescription form for it to be written on. There is no ordinary therapeutic supply route for this group. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists in relation to the substances in the first group of article 245, «Queda prohibido todo acto de los mencionados en el artículo 247 de esta Ley, con relación a las substancias incluidas en la fracción I del artículo 245». Article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research by institutions with a protocol approved by the Secretaria de Salud, «Solamente para fines de investigación científica, la Secretaría de Salud podrá autorizar la adquisición de las substancias psicotrópicas a que se refiere la fracción I del artículo 245». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The special duties articles 240 onward impose run to estupefacientes rather than to this group, which has no ordinary supply route to regulate.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The Act prints this row twice, once as a psychotropic entry and once as one of the eight lines of the article 479 table, and the two printings use different spellings of the same name. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the first group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: lsd 3, lisergida 2, lsd-25 1, lisergico 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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MDA

Legal status: MDA is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the first of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico escaso o nulo y que, por ser susceptibles de uso indebido o abuso, constituyen un problema especialmente grave para la salud pública». The list there prints «MDA 3,4-metilenodioxianfetamina.». This row carries a table line of its own, which is easy to miss because the table sets the amount out in two forms, a weight and a single tablet or capsule. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists for the substances in that first group, and article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The Act numbers its five groups with Roman numerals and this row is in group I, as the live cell had it.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. MMDA, one line further down the group list, is a different molecule with no table line at all. Article 479 gives this row a line of its own, «MDA, Metilendioxianfetamina Polvo, granulado o cristal Tabletas o cápsulas 40 mg.» with «Una unidad con peso no mayor a 200 mg.», and article 473 defines the tabla as «Tabla: la relación de narcóticos y la orientación de dosis máximas de consumo personal e inmediato prevista en el artículo 479 de esta Ley». Article 478 is a conditional no-prosecution rule and not a legal allowance, «El Ministerio Público no ejercerá acción penal por el delito previsto en el artículo anterior, en contra de quien sea farmacodependiente o consumidor y posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla, en igual o inferior cantidad a la prevista en la misma, para su estricto consumo personal». At or below the table amount, for strict immediate personal consumption and outside the protected places article 475 refers to, the prosecutor does not bring the article 477 case. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. Article 476 sets three to six years of prison for possession for the purpose of commerce or supply. Its fine is eighty to three hundred dias multa. Above one thousand times the table amount the Codigo Penal Federal applies. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: Its position is the same as the entry above it in the table, and neither has a therapeutic authorisation in Mexico. There is no ordinary therapeutic supply route for this group. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists in relation to the substances in the first group of article 245, «Queda prohibido todo acto de los mencionados en el artículo 247 de esta Ley, con relación a las substancias incluidas en la fracción I del artículo 245». Article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research by institutions with a protocol approved by the Secretaria de Salud, «Solamente para fines de investigación científica, la Secretaría de Salud podrá autorizar la adquisición de las substancias psicotrópicas a que se refiere la fracción I del artículo 245». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The special duties articles 240 onward impose run to estupefacientes rather than to this group, which has no ordinary supply route to regulate.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. This row carries a table line of its own, which is easy to miss because the table sets the amount out in two forms, a weight and a single tablet or capsule. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the first group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: mda 3, metilenodioxianfetamina 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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MDMA

Legal status: MDMA is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the first of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico escaso o nulo y que, por ser susceptibles de uso indebido o abuso, constituyen un problema especialmente grave para la salud pública». The list there prints «TENANFETAMINA MDMA dl-3,4-metilendioxi-n,-dimetilfeniletilamina.». The international non-proprietary name the Act gives this row is tenanfetamina, which is not the name any reader will arrive with, and the table prints the chemical name a third way again. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists for the substances in that first group, and article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The Act numbers its five groups with Roman numerals and this row is in group I, as the live cell had it.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. MDA sits on the line above in both the group list and the table, with the same amounts, and the two are separate entries rather than one. Article 479 gives this row a line of its own, «MDMA, dl-34-metilendioxi-n-dimetilfeniletilamina 40 mg.» with «Una unidad con peso no mayor a 200 mg.», and article 473 defines the tabla as «Tabla: la relación de narcóticos y la orientación de dosis máximas de consumo personal e inmediato prevista en el artículo 479 de esta Ley». Article 478 is a conditional no-prosecution rule and not a legal allowance, «El Ministerio Público no ejercerá acción penal por el delito previsto en el artículo anterior, en contra de quien sea farmacodependiente o consumidor y posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla, en igual o inferior cantidad a la prevista en la misma, para su estricto consumo personal». At or below the table amount, for strict immediate personal consumption and outside the protected places article 475 refers to, the prosecutor does not bring the article 477 case. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. Article 476 sets three to six years of prison for possession for the purpose of commerce or supply. Its fine is eighty to three hundred dias multa. Above one thousand times the table amount the Codigo Penal Federal applies. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: Mexico has authorised no clinical use, so the research protocol route is the only one the Act offers for it. There is no ordinary therapeutic supply route for this group. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists in relation to the substances in the first group of article 245, «Queda prohibido todo acto de los mencionados en el artículo 247 de esta Ley, con relación a las substancias incluidas en la fracción I del artículo 245». Article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research by institutions with a protocol approved by the Secretaria de Salud, «Solamente para fines de investigación científica, la Secretaría de Salud podrá autorizar la adquisición de las substancias psicotrópicas a que se refiere la fracción I del artículo 245». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The special duties articles 240 onward impose run to estupefacientes rather than to this group, which has no ordinary supply route to regulate.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The international non-proprietary name the Act gives this row is tenanfetamina, which is not the name any reader will arrive with, and the table prints the chemical name a third way again. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the first group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: mdma 2, tenanfetamina 1, metilendioxi 4 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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MDPV

Legal status: MDPV is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. No pyrrolidinophenone is printed in the Act, and pyrovalerone, the parent of this family, is absent as well. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The only pyrrolidine in the first group is roliciclidina, which is an arylcyclohexylamine and not a cathinone. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It has never been a medicine, and Mexican pharmacy stocks nothing resembling it. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. No pyrrolidinophenone is printed in the Act, and pyrovalerone, the parent of this family, is absent as well. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: mdpv 0, pirovalerona 0, pirrolidino 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · the previous version of this cell noted that some secondary compilations treat article 245 as picking up the 1971 Convention schedules or whole chemical classes, and that note is carried forward, not re-derived, and not adopted: no provision of the Act read here does either · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Memantine

Legal status: Memantine is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. This row acts at the same receptor as several printed entries and shares none of their names. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The adamantane skeleton it has is printed nowhere in the Act, and receptor pharmacology is not a ground of listing anywhere in the text. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is prescribed in Mexico for dementia under ordinary medicines rules with no group attached. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. This row acts at the same receptor as several printed entries and shares none of their names. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: memantine 0, memantina 0, adamantano 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Mephedrone is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the first of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico escaso o nulo y que, por ser susceptibles de uso indebido o abuso, constituyen un problema especialmente grave para la salud pública». The list there prints «MEFEDRONA 4- METILMETCATITONA 2-methylamino-1ptolylpropan-1-one». The entry is printed with a misspelling of the common name, as metilmetcatitona rather than metilmetcatinona, and the chemical name in the third column is in English rather than Spanish. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists for the substances in that first group, and article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The live cell reported that article 234 and article 245 returned no entry for this row, and that report is corrected here: the entry above was read in the printed group list.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. It is the only substituted cathinone the group names besides cathinone itself, so the presence of this row says nothing about the other cathinones. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: No medicine containing it exists anywhere, so the research authorisation in article 249 is the only lawful handling the Act describes. There is no ordinary therapeutic supply route for this group. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists in relation to the substances in the first group of article 245, «Queda prohibido todo acto de los mencionados en el artículo 247 de esta Ley, con relación a las substancias incluidas en la fracción I del artículo 245». Article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research by institutions with a protocol approved by the Secretaria de Salud, «Solamente para fines de investigación científica, la Secretaría de Salud podrá autorizar la adquisición de las substancias psicotrópicas a que se refiere la fracción I del artículo 245». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The special duties articles 240 onward impose run to estupefacientes rather than to this group, which has no ordinary supply route to regulate.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The entry is printed with a misspelling of the common name, as metilmetcatitona rather than metilmetcatinona, and the chemical name in the third column is in English rather than Spanish. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the first group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: mephedrone 0, mefedrona 1, metilmetcatitona 1, metcatinona 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · the previous version of this cell noted that some secondary compilations treat article 245 as picking up the 1971 Convention schedules or whole chemical classes, and that note is carried forward, not re-derived, and not adopted: no provision of the Act read here does either · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Mescaline is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the first of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico escaso o nulo y que, por ser susceptibles de uso indebido o abuso, constituyen un problema especialmente grave para la salud pública». The list there prints «MESCALINA (PEYOTE; LO-PHOPHORA WILLIAMS II ANHALONIUM WILLIAMS II; ANHALONIUM LEWIN II.» and «3,4,5-trimetoxifenetilamina.». The entry runs the substance and the cactus together in a single second-column cell, and the chemical name in the third column is what fixes the molecule. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists for the substances in that first group, and article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The Act numbers its five groups with Roman numerals and this row is in group I, as the live cell had it.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. The Act prints no separate entry for any other cactus alkaloid, so this row does not carry them. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: A cactus preparation and the pure alkaloid share one entry here, so neither can be supplied on a prescription. There is no ordinary therapeutic supply route for this group. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists in relation to the substances in the first group of article 245, «Queda prohibido todo acto de los mencionados en el artículo 247 de esta Ley, con relación a las substancias incluidas en la fracción I del artículo 245». Article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research by institutions with a protocol approved by the Secretaria de Salud, «Solamente para fines de investigación científica, la Secretaría de Salud podrá autorizar la adquisición de las substancias psicotrópicas a que se refiere la fracción I del artículo 245». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The special duties articles 240 onward impose run to estupefacientes rather than to this group, which has no ordinary supply route to regulate.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The entry runs the substance and the cactus together in a single second-column cell, and the chemical name in the third column is what fixes the molecule. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the first group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: mescaline 0, mescalina 1, trimetoxifenetilamina 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Methadone is named in Mexican law as an estupefaciente. Article 234 of the Ley General de Salud opens «Para los efectos de esta Ley, se consideran estupefacientes» and prints the entry «METADONA (6-dimetilamino-4,4-difenil-3-heptanona).». The Act prints the substance and its synthetic intermediate as two separate entries, so the intermediate is controlled by its own line and not by the parent name. Article 235 then makes every act with an estupefaciente, prescription included, subject to authorisation by the Secretaria de Salud. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Isomethadone, normethadone and dimefeptanol are three further separate entries built on the same heptanone skeleton. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: Its main use here is substitution treatment, which is delivered through authorised establishments rather than ordinary pharmacies. Only the professionals article 240 of the Ley General de Salud names may prescribe an estupefaciente, and they must hold a registered title. Article 241 requires special prescription forms carrying a barcode assigned by the Secretaria de Salud, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», for treatments of no more than thirty days. Article 242 makes the pharmacy take up the prescription, enter it in the estupefacientes ledger and surrender it to authorised personnel on request. Those are the duties articles 240 onward impose, and they are the heaviest prescription regime the Act has. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The Act prints the substance and its synthetic intermediate as two separate entries, so the intermediate is controlled by its own line and not by the parent name. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the estupefacientes list at Ley General de Salud article 234 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: methadone 0, metadona 5, isometadona 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Methamphetamine is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the second of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen algún valor terapéutico, pero constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». The list there prints «METANFETAMINA.». This is the only entry that is both in the second group of article 245 and in the article 479 table, so the group and the table have to be read together for it. Article 250 subjects that second group to the narcotics chapter of the same title, so its prescribing follows articles 240 to 243. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The live cell gave this row's prescription position as group I; the printed list puts it in the second group, and that placement is corrected here rather than repeated.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Amphetamine and dexamphetamine are printed in the same group but neither of them has a table line. Article 479 gives this row a line of its own, «Metanfetamina 40 mg.» with «Una unidad con peso no mayor a 200 mg.», and article 473 defines the tabla as «Tabla: la relación de narcóticos y la orientación de dosis máximas de consumo personal e inmediato prevista en el artículo 479 de esta Ley». Article 478 is a conditional no-prosecution rule and not a legal allowance, «El Ministerio Público no ejercerá acción penal por el delito previsto en el artículo anterior, en contra de quien sea farmacodependiente o consumidor y posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla, en igual o inferior cantidad a la prevista en la misma, para su estricto consumo personal». At or below the table amount, for strict immediate personal consumption and outside the protected places article 475 refers to, the prosecutor does not bring the article 477 case. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. Article 476 sets three to six years of prison for possession for the purpose of commerce or supply. Its fine is eighty to three hundred dias multa. Above one thousand times the table amount the Codigo Penal Federal applies. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: Mexico withdrew the medicines containing it long ago, so the second group's prescription regime has nothing left to regulate for this row. Article 250 places the second group of article 245 under the narcotics chapter of the same title, «Las substancias psicotrópicas incluidas en la fracción II del artículo 245 de esta Ley, así como las que se prevean en las disposiciones aplicables o en las listas a que se refiere el artículo 246, cuando se trate del grupo a que se refiere la misma fracción, quedarán sujetas en lo conducente, a las disposiciones del Capítulo V de este Título». In practice that means the special prescription forms of article 241, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», and treatments of no more than thirty days. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. That is the same regime articles 240 onward set for estupefacientes, applied to a psychotropic.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. This is the only entry that is both in the second group of article 245 and in the article 479 table, so the group and the table have to be read together for it. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the second group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: methamphetamine 0, metanfetamina 2, anfetamina 9 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Methaqualone is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the second of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen algún valor terapéutico, pero constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». The list there prints «METACUALONA.». The Act prints this row and its chlorinated relative as two consecutive entries in the same group. Article 250 subjects that second group to the narcotics chapter of the same title, so its prescribing follows articles 240 to 243. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The live cell gave this row's prescription position as group I; the printed list puts it in the second group, and that placement is corrected here rather than repeated.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Mecloqualone is the entry immediately above, and it is a different substance with its own line. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: The hypnotic it once was is off the Mexican market, so the second group's special prescription form has no product to attach to. Article 250 places the second group of article 245 under the narcotics chapter of the same title, «Las substancias psicotrópicas incluidas en la fracción II del artículo 245 de esta Ley, así como las que se prevean en las disposiciones aplicables o en las listas a que se refiere el artículo 246, cuando se trate del grupo a que se refiere la misma fracción, quedarán sujetas en lo conducente, a las disposiciones del Capítulo V de este Título». In practice that means the special prescription forms of article 241, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», and treatments of no more than thirty days. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. That is the same regime articles 240 onward set for estupefacientes, applied to a psychotropic.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The Act prints this row and its chlorinated relative as two consecutive entries in the same group. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the second group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: methaqualone 0, metacualona 1, meclocualona 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methylone

Legal status: Methylone is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The group prints exactly two cathinones and this is not one of them. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The methylenedioxy cathinones are absent from the Act altogether, although the corresponding amphetamine, MDA, is printed and carries a table line. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It has no medicine form, so the absence is an absence from a list rather than from a pharmacy shelf. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The group prints exactly two cathinones and this is not one of them. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: methylone 0, metilona 0, bk-mdma 0, catinona 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Methylphenidate is named in Mexican law as an estupefaciente. Article 234 of the Ley General de Salud opens «Para los efectos de esta Ley, se consideran estupefacientes» and prints the entry «METILFENIDATO (éster metílico del ácido alfafenil-2-piperidín acético).». Mexico puts this row among the estupefacientes rather than among the psychotropics, which is where most other countries put it and where a reader will look first. Article 235 then makes every act with an estupefaciente, prescription included, subject to authorisation by the Secretaria de Salud. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Article 239 names it again in the short list of seized substances the health authority must be told about. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: Because Mexico calls it an estupefaciente, its prescription is the barcoded special form rather than the ordinary retained prescription other countries use. Only the professionals article 240 of the Ley General de Salud names may prescribe an estupefaciente, and they must hold a registered title. Article 241 requires special prescription forms carrying a barcode assigned by the Secretaria de Salud, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», for treatments of no more than thirty days. Article 242 makes the pharmacy take up the prescription, enter it in the estupefacientes ledger and surrender it to authorised personnel on request. Those are the duties articles 240 onward impose, and they are the heaviest prescription regime the Act has. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. Mexico puts this row among the estupefacientes rather than among the psychotropics, which is where most other countries put it and where a reader will look first. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the estupefacientes list at Ley General de Salud article 234 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: methylphenidate 0, metilfenidato 2 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Mitragynine

Legal status: Mitragynine is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The Act prints no indole alkaloid of this family at all. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The tryptamines it does print are simple dimethyl and diethyl tryptamines, and this row is a corynanthe alkaloid with a quite different skeleton. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is an isolate of a herbal product and has no Mexican pharmacopoeia entry. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The Act prints no indole alkaloid of this family at all. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: mitragynine 0, mitraginina 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Modafinil

Legal status: Modafinil is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. No sulphinyl acetamide is printed in either list. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The wakefulness and appetite stimulants the fourth group does print are mazindol and the amphetamine derivatives, and the decree published on 15 January 2026 removed sertraline from that group without adding this row to it. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is prescribed in Mexico for narcolepsy under ordinary medicines rules and carries no group in article 245. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. No sulphinyl acetamide is printed in either list. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: modafinil 0, modafinilo 0, sulfinil 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Morphine

Legal status: Morphine is named in Mexican law as an estupefaciente. Article 234 of the Ley General de Salud opens «Para los efectos de esta Ley, se consideran estupefacientes» and prints the entry «MORFINA.». The Act prints the name alone and then prints a second entry for its quaternary nitrogen derivatives, so the derivatives are covered expressly rather than by inference. Article 235 then makes every act with an estupefaciente, prescription included, subject to authorisation by the Secretaria de Salud. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Normorphine, dihydromorphine and hydromorphone each have their own lines in the same article. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: It is the reference opioid of Mexican palliative care, and the thirty day limit on the special form is the constraint that matters to a patient. Only the professionals article 240 of the Ley General de Salud names may prescribe an estupefaciente, and they must hold a registered title. Article 241 requires special prescription forms carrying a barcode assigned by the Secretaria de Salud, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», for treatments of no more than thirty days. Article 242 makes the pharmacy take up the prescription, enter it in the estupefacientes ledger and surrender it to authorised personnel on request. Those are the duties articles 240 onward impose, and they are the heaviest prescription regime the Act has. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The Act prints the name alone and then prints a second entry for its quaternary nitrogen derivatives, so the derivatives are covered expressly rather than by inference. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the estupefacientes list at Ley General de Salud article 234 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: morphine 0, morfina 42, normorfina 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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MXE

Legal status: MXE is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. No methoxylated arylcyclohexylamine is printed in the Act. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The group prints eticiclidina and roliciclidina with full chemical names, and neither carries the methoxy or the ethylamino substitution this row has. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is not dispensed anywhere, and the ketamine it resembles is in the third group with a retained prescription. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. No methoxylated arylcyclohexylamine is printed in the Act. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: mxe 0, metoxetamina 0, ciclohexil 3 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Nicotine

Legal status: Nicotine is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. This row is not printed in either list and has not been. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The fourth group printed «CAFEINA» until the decree published on 15 January 2026 removed it, which shows that a common stimulant can be listed and then delisted while this row is never listed at all. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: Replacement therapy products are sold here under ordinary medicines rules, and no group of article 245 governs them. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. This row is not printed in either list and has not been. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: nicotine 0, nicotina 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Nimetazepam is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the third of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico, pero constituyen un problema para la salud pública». The list there prints «NIMETAZEPAM». The Act prints this row immediately before nitrazepam, from which it differs by a single methyl group and by two letters in the Spanish name. Article 251 requires a doctor's prescription carrying the prescriber's professional licence number, filled once and retained by the pharmacy. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Nothing in the group makes the nitro benzodiazepines a class, so each of them stands on its own printed name. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: It has no Mexican marketing authorisation, so the retained prescription rule describes a route that is not in fact used here. Article 251 governs supply to the public for the third group of article 245: it «requerirán para su venta o suministro al público, receta médica que contenga el número de la cédula profesional del médico que la expida, la que deberá surtirse por una sola vez y retenerse en la farmacia que la surta». So the prescription is filled once, and the pharmacy keeps it. The group also reaches salts, precursors and chemical derivatives, «Y sus sales, precursores y derivados químicos». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The heavier duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes do not apply to this group.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The Act prints this row immediately before nitrazepam, from which it differs by a single methyl group and by two letters in the Spanish name. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the third group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: nimetazepam 1, nitrazepam 2 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Nitrous Oxide

Legal status: Nitrous oxide is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. No inhaled gas is printed in either list. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The two additions this row is measured against, «ACIDO GAMMA HIDROXIBUTIRICO (GHB)» and «GAMMA BUTIROLACTONA (GBL)», are among those ten. That inclusion did not take effect with the rest of the Decree. Transitorio Primero reads «El presente Decreto entrará en vigor al día siguiente de su publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación.», and Transitorio Segundo carves ten named substances out of that: «La inclusión en las clasificaciones previstas en el artículo 245 de esta Ley de las siguientes substancias: CATINA, DIHIDROERGOCRISTINA, NICERGOLINA, NORPSEUDOEFEDRINA, PSEUDOEFEDRINA, ANFEBUTAMONA (BUPROPIÓN), TRAMADOL, ACIDO GAMMA HIDROXIBUTIRICO (GHB), BENZQUINAMIDA, GAMMA BUTIROLACTONA (GBL), entrará en vigor a los ciento ochenta días naturales siguientes a la publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación del presente Decreto.». The hundred and eightieth natural day after publication on 15 January 2026 is 14 July 2026, so the inclusion took effect on that date and has been in force for sixty nine days as this cell is written.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The decree published on 15 January 2026 added two liquids to the fourth group by name and added no gas, and article 254 still treats inhalable psychotropic substances as a matter for the sale controls of the health authorities rather than for article 245. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is used as a medical gas in Mexican hospitals under the ordinary rules for medical gases rather than under article 245. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. No inhaled gas is printed in either list. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: nitrous oxide 0, oxido nitroso 0, nitroso 0, inhalantes 5 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · the inclusion relied on for this row was deferred by Transitorio Segundo of that decree to the hundred and eightieth natural day after publication, which is 14 July 2026, while Transitorio Primero brought the rest of the decree into force the day after publication · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Opium

Legal status: Opium is named in Mexican law as an estupefaciente. Article 234 of the Ley General de Salud opens «Para los efectos de esta Ley, se consideran estupefacientes» and prints the entry «OPIO.». The Act prints this row as a bare word with no chemical description, and separately prints the poppy, the straw and the concentrate of poppy straw as their own entries. Article 235 then makes every act with an estupefaciente, prescription included, subject to authorisation by the Secretaria de Salud. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. Article 245, which prints the psychotropics, does not carry this row.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Article 237 prohibits prepared opium for smoking rather than opium as such, which is a narrower prohibition than the entry. Article 479 gives this row a line of its own, «Opio 2 gr.», and article 473 defines the tabla as «Tabla: la relación de narcóticos y la orientación de dosis máximas de consumo personal e inmediato prevista en el artículo 479 de esta Ley». Article 478 is a conditional no-prosecution rule and not a legal allowance, «El Ministerio Público no ejercerá acción penal por el delito previsto en el artículo anterior, en contra de quien sea farmacodependiente o consumidor y posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla, en igual o inferior cantidad a la prevista en la misma, para su estricto consumo personal». At or below the table amount, for strict immediate personal consumption and outside the protected places article 475 refers to, the prosecutor does not bring the article 477 case. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. Article 476 sets three to six years of prison for possession for the purpose of commerce or supply. Its fine is eighty to three hundred dias multa. Above one thousand times the table amount the Codigo Penal Federal applies. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: The powdered form appears again in the article 239 seizure list, which is a control on the substance after it is taken rather than before. Only the professionals article 240 of the Ley General de Salud names may prescribe an estupefaciente, and they must hold a registered title. Article 241 requires special prescription forms carrying a barcode assigned by the Secretaria de Salud, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», for treatments of no more than thirty days. Article 242 makes the pharmacy take up the prescription, enter it in the estupefacientes ledger and surrender it to authorised personnel on request. Those are the duties articles 240 onward impose, and they are the heaviest prescription regime the Act has. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The Act prints this row as a bare word with no chemical description, and separately prints the poppy, the straw and the concentrate of poppy straw as their own entries. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the estupefacientes list at Ley General de Salud article 234 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: opium 0, opio 39, adormidera 4, tebaina 2 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Oxycodone is named in Mexican law as an estupefaciente. Article 234 of the Ley General de Salud opens «Para los efectos de esta Ley, se consideran estupefacientes» and prints the entry «OXICODONA (14-hidroxidihidrocodeinona ó dihidrohidroxicodeinona).». The entry gives two alternative chemical names for the same molecule, both built on dihydrocodeinone, which is how the Act distinguishes it from codeine. Article 235 then makes every act with an estupefaciente, prescription included, subject to authorisation by the Secretaria de Salud. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Oxymorphone is printed immediately below with a chemical name that differs by one prefix. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: It is dispensed here in modified release tablets, and the special form and the ledger entry apply to every one of them. Only the professionals article 240 of the Ley General de Salud names may prescribe an estupefaciente, and they must hold a registered title. Article 241 requires special prescription forms carrying a barcode assigned by the Secretaria de Salud, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», for treatments of no more than thirty days. Article 242 makes the pharmacy take up the prescription, enter it in the estupefacientes ledger and surrender it to authorised personnel on request. Those are the duties articles 240 onward impose, and they are the heaviest prescription regime the Act has. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The entry gives two alternative chemical names for the same molecule, both built on dihydrocodeinone, which is how the Act distinguishes it from codeine. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the estupefacientes list at Ley General de Salud article 234 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: oxycodone 0, oxicodona 2, oximorfona 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: PCP is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the second of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen algún valor terapéutico, pero constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». The list there prints «FENCICLIDINA.». This row sits in the second group of article 245 rather than the first, although three of its close analogues sit in the first. Article 250 subjects that second group to the narcotics chapter of the same title, so its prescribing follows articles 240 to 243. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The live cell gave this row's prescription position as group I; the printed list puts it in the second group, and that placement is corrected here rather than repeated.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Eticiclidina and tenociclidina are printed in the first group with their chemical names, so the arylcyclohexylamines are split across two groups. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: Its former veterinary use is gone, and article 240 would in principle let a veterinarian prescribe an estupefaciente, which this row is not. Article 250 places the second group of article 245 under the narcotics chapter of the same title, «Las substancias psicotrópicas incluidas en la fracción II del artículo 245 de esta Ley, así como las que se prevean en las disposiciones aplicables o en las listas a que se refiere el artículo 246, cuando se trate del grupo a que se refiere la misma fracción, quedarán sujetas en lo conducente, a las disposiciones del Capítulo V de este Título». In practice that means the special prescription forms of article 241, «La prescripción de estupefacientes se hará en recetarios especiales, que contendrán, para su control, un código de barras asignado por la Secretaría de Salud», and treatments of no more than thirty days. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. That is the same regime articles 240 onward set for estupefacientes, applied to a psychotropic.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. This row sits in the second group of article 245 rather than the first, although three of its close analogues sit in the first. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the second group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: pcp 1, fenciclidina 1, fenilciclohexil 2 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Peyote

Legal status: Peyote is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the first of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico escaso o nulo y que, por ser susceptibles de uso indebido o abuso, constituyen un problema especialmente grave para la salud pública». The list there prints «MESCALINA (PEYOTE; LO-PHOPHORA WILLIAMS II ANHALONIUM WILLIAMS II; ANHALONIUM LEWIN II.». The cactus is not given a line of its own: it appears inside the mescaline entry, in the column the Act heads as other common or vulgar names. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists for the substances in that first group, and article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. The Codigo Penal Federal treats this row differently from every other in article 245, because article 195 bis excludes ceremonial use from federal prosecution. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: The one route the law leaves open for this row is not a medical one at all: it is the ceremonial exemption the federal code writes into its possession offence. There is no ordinary therapeutic supply route for this group. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists in relation to the substances in the first group of article 245, «Queda prohibido todo acto de los mencionados en el artículo 247 de esta Ley, con relación a las substancias incluidas en la fracción I del artículo 245». Article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research by institutions with a protocol approved by the Secretaria de Salud, «Solamente para fines de investigación científica, la Secretaría de Salud podrá autorizar la adquisición de las substancias psicotrópicas a que se refiere la fracción I del artículo 245». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The special duties articles 240 onward impose run to estupefacientes rather than to this group, which has no ordinary supply route to regulate.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The cactus is not given a line of its own: it appears inside the mescaline entry, in the column the Act heads as other common or vulgar names. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the first group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: peyote 1, lophophora 0, anhalonium 2 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Phenibut

Legal status: Phenibut is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. No phenyl substituted gamma aminobutyric acid is printed in the Act. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The addition this row is measured against, «ACIDO GAMMA HIDROXIBUTIRICO (GHB)», is among those ten. That inclusion did not take effect with the rest of the Decree. Transitorio Primero reads «El presente Decreto entrará en vigor al día siguiente de su publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación.», and Transitorio Segundo carves ten named substances out of that: «La inclusión en las clasificaciones previstas en el artículo 245 de esta Ley de las siguientes substancias: CATINA, DIHIDROERGOCRISTINA, NICERGOLINA, NORPSEUDOEFEDRINA, PSEUDOEFEDRINA, ANFEBUTAMONA (BUPROPIÓN), TRAMADOL, ACIDO GAMMA HIDROXIBUTIRICO (GHB), BENZQUINAMIDA, GAMMA BUTIROLACTONA (GBL), entrará en vigor a los ciento ochenta días naturales siguientes a la publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación del presente Decreto.». The hundred and eightieth natural day after publication on 15 January 2026 is 14 July 2026, so the inclusion took effect on that date and has been in force for sixty nine days as this cell is written.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The fourth group now prints two related four carbon compounds, the hydroxy acid added by the decree published on 15 January 2026 and the amino hydroxy acid that opens the group, and this row is neither of them. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is sold as a supplement in some markets and is not a Mexican medicine. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. No phenyl substituted gamma aminobutyric acid is printed in the Act. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: phenibut 0, fenibut 0, fenilbutirico 0, gabob 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · the inclusion relied on for this row was deferred by Transitorio Segundo of that decree to the hundred and eightieth natural day after publication, which is 14 July 2026, while Transitorio Primero brought the rest of the decree into force the day after publication · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Controlled or not according to what a given sample contains. The street name is not named in article 234 or in any of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, and the substances analyses do find, such as «COCAINA (éster metílico de benzoilecgonina).» and «TENANFETAMINA MDMA dl-3,4-metilendioxi-n,-dimetilfeniletilamina.», are answered by their own entries. The street name covers samples whose contents differ, and analyses commonly find no cocaine in them at all despite the name. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018». The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by what is actually present rather than by the name. Whichever substances a given sample contains are answered by their own entries, and the name itself is printed nowhere in the Act. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription question to answer until a sample is analysed, because the name does not identify a substance. No single prescription answer attaches to this row, because the Act answers the names it prints and not the category. Where a named constituent is present, that constituent's own group decides the rule: articles 240 onward for an estupefaciente, article 248 for the first group of article 245, article 251 for the third and article 252 for the fourth. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of the category name, because the category is not what articles 234 and 245 of the Ley General de Salud read. Identify what is actually present and carry its prescription and labelled packaging if it has one. The street name covers samples whose contents differ, and analyses commonly find no cocaine in them at all despite the name. The printed entries relied on for this row were read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, answered through the names Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 do print, not through this row's own name · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: pink cocaine 0, cocaina 3, mdma 2, ketamina 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Poppers

Legal status: Poppers is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The market name covers several chemically different alkyl nitrites and the Act prints none of them. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The addition this row is measured against, «GAMMA BUTIROLACTONA (GBL)», is among those ten. That inclusion did not take effect with the rest of the Decree. Transitorio Primero reads «El presente Decreto entrará en vigor al día siguiente de su publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación.», and Transitorio Segundo carves ten named substances out of that: «La inclusión en las clasificaciones previstas en el artículo 245 de esta Ley de las siguientes substancias: CATINA, DIHIDROERGOCRISTINA, NICERGOLINA, NORPSEUDOEFEDRINA, PSEUDOEFEDRINA, ANFEBUTAMONA (BUPROPIÓN), TRAMADOL, ACIDO GAMMA HIDROXIBUTIRICO (GHB), BENZQUINAMIDA, GAMMA BUTIROLACTONA (GBL), entrará en vigor a los ciento ochenta días naturales siguientes a la publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación del presente Decreto.». The hundred and eightieth natural day after publication on 15 January 2026 is 14 July 2026, so the inclusion took effect on that date and has been in force for sixty nine days as this cell is written.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The decree published on 15 January 2026 added a solvent to the fourth group by name, which shows the list reaching a non-medicinal chemical, and it added no nitrite of any kind. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: They are sold as room odourisers rather than as medicines, and the inhalants power in article 254 is aimed at sellers. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The market name covers several chemically different alkyl nitrites and the Act prints none of them. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: poppers 0, nitrito 0, alquilo 0, inhalantes 5 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the inclusion relied on for this row was deferred by Transitorio Segundo of that decree to the hundred and eightieth natural day after publication, which is 14 July 2026, while Transitorio Primero brought the rest of the decree into force the day after publication · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Pregabalin is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. Neither this row nor its close relative is printed in the Act. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The gamma aminobutyric acid analogue the Act does print is GABOB, which is a hydroxy compound rather than an alkyl substituted one. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is widely prescribed here for neuropathic pain, and the absence means no retained prescription rule attaches to it. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. Neither this row nor its close relative is printed in the Act. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: pregabalin 0, pregabalina 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Psilocybin is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the first of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico escaso o nulo y que, por ser susceptibles de uso indebido o abuso, constituyen un problema especialmente grave para la salud pública». The list there prints «PSILOCIBINA HONGOS ALUCINANTES DE CUALQUIER VARIEDAD BOTANICA, EN ESPECIAL LAS ESPECIES PSILOCYBE MEXICANA, STOPHARIA CUBENSIS Y CONOCYBE, Y SUS PRINCIPIOS ACTIVOS.». The entry carries a second column that names hallucinogenic mushrooms of any botanical variety as an alternative common name for this substance, so the mushroom and the molecule are printed on one line rather than two. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists for the substances in that first group, and article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The Act numbers its five groups with Roman numerals and this row is in group I, as the live cell had it.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Psilocin is printed on the line above as its own entry, which is why a preparation is not answered by this row alone. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: The mushroom text in the second column means a dried fungus and an isolated molecule reach the same prohibition, which no prescription can lift. There is no ordinary therapeutic supply route for this group. Article 248 prohibits every act article 247 lists in relation to the substances in the first group of article 245, «Queda prohibido todo acto de los mencionados en el artículo 247 de esta Ley, con relación a las substancias incluidas en la fracción I del artículo 245». Article 249 leaves only acquisition for authorised scientific research by institutions with a protocol approved by the Secretaria de Salud, «Solamente para fines de investigación científica, la Secretaría de Salud podrá autorizar la adquisición de las substancias psicotrópicas a que se refiere la fracción I del artículo 245». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The special duties articles 240 onward impose run to estupefacientes rather than to this group, which has no ordinary supply route to regulate.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The entry carries a second column that names hallucinogenic mushrooms of any botanical variety as an alternative common name for this substance, so the mushroom and the molecule are printed on one line rather than two. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the first group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: psilocybin 0, psilocibina 1, psilocina 1, hongos 1, psilocybe 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Quetiapine

Legal status: Quetiapine is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The Act prints several antipsychotics and this row is not among them. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. Clozapine and risperidone are printed in the third group and haloperidol and the phenothiazines in the fourth, so the absence here is an absence from a populated field. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is prescribed here as an antipsychotic while two of its competitors are printed in the third group, which is the oddity worth knowing. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The Act prints several antipsychotics and this row is not among them. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: quetiapine 0, quetiapina 0, clozapina 3, risperidona 3 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Salvia divinorum

Legal status: Salvia divinorum is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. Neither the plant nor its active diterpene is printed anywhere in the Act. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The Act does print one plant material by name in the first group, in the second column of the psilocybin entry, and that entry names mushrooms rather than any plant. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is sold as a plant rather than as a medicine, and no Mexican preparation contains it. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. Neither the plant nor its active diterpene is printed anywhere in the Act. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: salvia divinorum 0, salvia 0, divinorum 0, salvinorina 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Scopolamine is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. No tropane alkaloid other than the cocaine group in article 234 is printed anywhere in the Act, and this row is not printed at all. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The dossier consulted for this cell asserted a named Spanish entry for it, and that assertion did not survive a reading of the printed lists. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is dispensed here in antispasmodic and motion sickness products under ordinary medicines rules. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. No tropane alkaloid other than the cocaine group in article 234 is printed anywhere in the Act, and this row is not printed at all. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: scopolamine 0, escopolamina 0, hioscina 0, atropina 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Controlled as a printed category. The first group of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud prints «CANABINOIDES SINTÉTICOS» and «K2», and any particular compound of the family is not named in the group. The first group prints the category itself as an entry, with a street name in the second column and the chemical name column left empty. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018». The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by what is actually present rather than by the name. An entry with no chemical name cannot be matched against a particular compound the way every other entry in the group can, so which molecules it reaches is not settled by the printing. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: No compound of the family has a medicine authorisation here, so the first group's research route is the only one the Act describes. No single prescription answer attaches to this row, because the Act answers the names it prints and not the category. Where a named constituent is present, that constituent's own group decides the rule: articles 240 onward for an estupefaciente, article 248 for the first group of article 245, article 251 for the third and article 252 for the fourth. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of the category name, because the category is not what articles 234 and 245 of the Ley General de Salud read. Identify what is actually present and carry its prescription and labelled packaging if it has one. The first group prints the category itself as an entry, with a street name in the second column and the chemical name column left empty. The printed entries relied on for this row were read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, answered through the names Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 do print, not through this row's own name · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: synthetic cannabinoids 0, canabinoides 1, sinteticos 2, k2 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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THC-P

Legal status: THC-P is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The seven isomers the Act names all carry the pentyl side chain, and this row carries a seven carbon chain instead. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. Whether a longer chain homologue counts as one of the listed isomers or their stereochemical variants is not settled by the printing, which enumerates rather than describes. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical: It appears in unregulated hemp derived products rather than in any authorised medicine. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The seven isomers the Act names all carry the pentyl side chain, and this row carries a seven carbon chain instead. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: thc-p 0, tetrahidrocannabiforol 0, isomeros 6 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Tobacco

Legal status: Tobacco is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The plant is not printed in either list, although article 234 does print three other plants by name. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The chapter of the Act that once carried tobacco provisions is marked as repealed in the consolidated text, the matter having moved to a separate federal statute, and the decree published on 15 January 2026 did not touch that chapter. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: Its sale is governed by the separate federal tobacco statute rather than by anything in these two articles. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The plant is not printed in either list, although article 234 does print three other plants by name. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: tobacco 0, tabaco 8 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Tramadol

Legal status: Tramadol is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the third of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico, pero constituyen un problema para la salud pública». The list there prints «TRAMADOL». The decree published on 15 January 2026 moved this row out of the fourth group and added it as the last paragraph of the third, which is a heavier prescription rule and a different position under the federal code. Article 251 requires a doctor's prescription carrying the prescriber's professional licence number, filled once and retained by the pharmacy. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026. The substance this row is, printed there as «TRAMADOL», is one of those ten, and it is its inclusion in the third group that the transitory article defers rather than its removal from the fourth. That inclusion did not take effect with the rest of the Decree. Transitorio Primero reads «El presente Decreto entrará en vigor al día siguiente de su publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación.», and Transitorio Segundo carves ten named substances out of that: «La inclusión en las clasificaciones previstas en el artículo 245 de esta Ley de las siguientes substancias: CATINA, DIHIDROERGOCRISTINA, NICERGOLINA, NORPSEUDOEFEDRINA, PSEUDOEFEDRINA, ANFEBUTAMONA (BUPROPIÓN), TRAMADOL, ACIDO GAMMA HIDROXIBUTIRICO (GHB), BENZQUINAMIDA, GAMMA BUTIROLACTONA (GBL), entrará en vigor a los ciento ochenta días naturales siguientes a la publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Federación del presente Decreto.». The hundred and eightieth natural day after publication on 15 January 2026 is 14 July 2026, so the inclusion took effect on that date and has been in force for sixty nine days as this cell is written.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. It is printed at the end of the part of the third group the Act heads as others, after trihexyphenidyl, rather than among the benzodiazepines the group opens with. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: It is the opioid most often found in a traveller's luggage, and the 2026 move from the fourth group to the third turns a prescription that could be filled three times into one the pharmacy keeps after a single fill. Article 251 governs supply to the public for the third group of article 245: it «requerirán para su venta o suministro al público, receta médica que contenga el número de la cédula profesional del médico que la expida, la que deberá surtirse por una sola vez y retenerse en la farmacia que la surta». So the prescription is filled once, and the pharmacy keeps it. The group also reaches salts, precursors and chemical derivatives, «Y sus sales, precursores y derivados químicos». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The heavier duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes do not apply to this group.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The decree published on 15 January 2026 moved this row out of the fourth group and added it as the last paragraph of the third, which is a heavier prescription rule and a different position under the federal code. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the third group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: tramadol 3 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the inclusion relied on for this row was deferred by Transitorio Segundo of that decree to the hundred and eightieth natural day after publication, which is 14 July 2026, while Transitorio Primero brought the rest of the decree into force the day after publication · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Alprazolam is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the third of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico, pero constituyen un problema para la salud pública». The list there prints «ALPRAZOLAM». This row is the first benzodiazepine the group prints in alphabetical order, immediately after the barbituric acid entry that opens the list. Article 251 requires a doctor's prescription carrying the prescriber's professional licence number, filled once and retained by the pharmacy. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. The group also prints its salts, precursors and chemical derivatives, which is a wider reach than the name alone. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical: The group also reaches its salts and chemical derivatives, so a salt form is not outside the retained prescription rule. Article 251 governs supply to the public for the third group of article 245: it «requerirán para su venta o suministro al público, receta médica que contenga el número de la cédula profesional del médico que la expida, la que deberá surtirse por una sola vez y retenerse en la farmacia que la surta». So the prescription is filled once, and the pharmacy keeps it. The group also reaches salts, precursors and chemical derivatives, «Y sus sales, precursores y derivados químicos». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The heavier duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes do not apply to this group.
Documentation: Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. This row is the first benzodiazepine the group prints in alphabetical order, immediately after the barbituric acid entry that opens the list. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, named in the third group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: alprazolam 1, benzodiazepinas 1 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Xylazine

Legal status: Xylazine is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. This row is a veterinary sedative and the Act prints no entry for it. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. Article 240 does contemplate veterinary prescribing of estupefacientes, so the Act has a veterinary dimension without this substance being in it. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is a veterinary product here, and article 240 lets a veterinarian prescribe an estupefaciente without this row being one. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. This row is a veterinary sedative and the Act prints no entry for it. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: xylazine 0, xilazina 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Zolpidem is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The dossier and the previous version of this cell both asserted a named entry for this row, and the group list does not contain one. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught: Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. The entry that closes the benzodiazepine run alphabetically is zopiclona, a cyclopyrrolone, and it is the only non-benzodiazepine hypnotic the Act prints. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: It is genuinely prescribed in Mexico, which is why its absence from article 245 is worth stating plainly rather than assuming. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation: Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The dossier and the previous version of this cell both asserted a named entry for this row, and the group list does not contain one. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: zolpidem 0, imidazopiridina 0, zopiclona 3 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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